In the McCleskey Death Penalty Opinion , the U

In the McCleskey death penalty opinion , the U.S. Supreme Court majority discussed statistical data about the death penalty. The majority opinion.

A) rejected the statistical data presented in the record because it was a correlation, and did not show the intention of legal actors involved in the particular case at hand to discriminate
B) accepted the data because it was based on a systems theory of institutional racism and not discrimination in the particular case.
C) accepted that the statistical data should be weighted heavily because it threw into serious question the principles that underlie the justice system
D) said that the history of racial discrimination, culture and the social system were important in ascertaining whether there was discrimination in the particular case