"black" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The poor are likelier than the rich to be executed, and blacks convicted of killing whites are far likelier to be sentenced to death than any other category of defendant.
- Virginia experimented for a time with selling free blacks convicted of "serious" crimes into slavery until public opposition led to the measure's repeal (but only after forty such persons were sold).
- A court-ordered study found that blacks and whites convicted of capital crimes in New Jersey had been sentenced to death in nearly equal percentages.
- The court also discounted the assertion by the New Jersey Public Defender's Office that the blacks convicted of capital crimes against whites were 20 percent more likely to be sentenced to die than other defendants.
- The Public Defender also offered a statistical analysis of capital cases in New Jersey as evidence that blacks convicted of capital crimes against whites were more likely than other defendants to receive a death sentence.
- The country's highest court today overturned the death sentences of 14 blacks convicted of murder in the 1985 killing of a policeman.
- The Human Rights Watch supported this claim as well, stating that of blacks convicted of drug crimes 71% are incarcerated, compared with 63% of convicted whites.
- Recently he helped defend 14 blacks convicted of murdering a black policeman in 1985.
- In addition, from 60 percent to 85 percent of all those executed over the years were blacks convicted of killing or raping whites.
- President Reagan, in an unusual appeal, urged South Africa today to grant clemency to six blacks convicted of complicity in a 1984 mob killing.
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