Dee, I found this from Niki's website...looks like you may have a point.....
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California spends millions more on capital cases
California spends $90 Million dollars annually above and beyond the ordinary costs of the justice system on capital cases. $78 million of that total is incurred at the trial level (Sacramento Bee, March 18, 1988). In January 2003, despite a budge deficit, California Governor Gray Davis proposed building a new $220 million state of the art death row. (New York Times, January 14, 2003).
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well, well, Niki's fact sheet disproved the stereotypical "death row is disproportionately populated by blacks" theory (which many (Including myself and Amber apparently!) mistakenly believed):
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Races on Death Row:
White: 45%
Black 42%
Hispanic 11%
Other 2%
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Race of Death Row Inmates actually executed:
White 57%
Black 34%
Hispanic 7%
Other 2%
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Another interesting tidbit: 80% of the time, the victims in Death Row cases are White.
California has the most inmates on death row (660) but Texas and Virginia executed the most death row inmates. A death sentence in CA is not necessarily a death sentence apparently.....