Abstract
To what extent does race permeate the mass public’s approval of state executions, i.e., capital punishment. Do citizens find racial minorities more deserving than White offenders of the state?s ultimate sanction? The vast disparities in capital sentencing between Whites and other racial minorities, particularly among Blacks, has made these questions of great consequence to scholars of both the criminal justice system and the politics of the carceral state. Whereas Blacks represent a mere 13 percent of the U.S. population, 34.5 percent of all executed offenders since 1976 have been Black. This disparity is likely to increase in the future given that Blacks comprise 41.4 percent of inmates awaiting execution on death row, whiles Whites and Latinos are underrepresented on death row comprising 42 percent and 13.4 percent of death row inmates respectively
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