urts have been unfair in death sentencing. The
             1990 GAO report, summarizing numerous capital punishment studies, confirmed
             "a consistent pattern of evidence indicating racial disparities in the
             charging, sentencing, and imposition of the death penalty." The GAO also
             revealed that those who murdered whites were more likely to be sentenced to
             Death Row than those who murdered blacks. According to the Death Penalty
             Information Center (DPIC) nearly 40% of those executed since 1976 have been
             black although blacks only comprise 12% of the U.S. population. And in just
             about every death penalty case, the race of the victim was white. The DPIC
             goes on to report that in the previous year, 89% of the death sentences
             involved victims whom were white. U.S News and World Report writer Ted Gest
             reinforces his concept. He writes that on Death Row race really does matter.
             He points out that on Death Row whites and minorities are represented
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