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Visit the following website: FBI Hate Crime Stats (Links to an external site.). Scroll through the tabs: ‘Incidents and Offenses’, ‘Offenders’, and ‘Victims’.

Velasquez et al. (2015) point out a serious injustice within the application of our justice system today: that the death sentence is given more frequently to blacks who kill whites than to blacks who kill other blacks or to whites who kill blacks. This evidence is supported by the following death penalty fact sheet (Links to an external site.) put out by Death Penalty Information Center out of Washington, D.C.

1. Based on the statistics we examined this week and your consideration of this week’s ‘think about it’ prompt, what do the statistics tell us? How do you feel about the statistics
2. we examined today? Do they indicate a systemic and societal problem, and if so, what are your recommendations to fix it
3. What biases are you struggling with in your day-to-day decision-making?