Research concerning race and capital punishment indicates that
A) for judgments of such serious repercussion, judges and juries are rarely if ever influenced by race.
B) the more "stereotypically African American" a black defendant appears, the more likely he is to be sentenced to death.
C) defendants are most likely to be sentenced to death when they murder a same-race victim.
D) black women were more likely than black men to receive a capital sentence.
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