A GAO meta-review confirmed race predicts death penalty judgments

Evidence

These results are strongly consistent with the results of a review of twentyeight studies of the connection between death penalty judgments and race conducted by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO)-the research arm of the U.S. Congress. After reviewing this extant literature, the 1990 GAO report concluded that in 82 percent of the studies, race of victim was found to influence the likelihood of being charged with capital murder or receiving the death penalty, i. — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 73

Categorization

• QUESTION: The excerpt cuts off before stating what the GAO actually concluded — the substantive finding is in the following paragraph.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law: A Definitive Look at…, 73