Daily chart: the death penalty. In recent years the number of executions and of death sentences in America have both fallen sharply. Yet the lag between sentencing and execution is getting longer. And killing a white person still seems disproportionately likely to lead to a death sentence.

Daily chart: the death penalty. In recent years the number of executions and of death sentences in America have both fallen sharply. Yet the lag between sentencing and execution is getting longer. And killing a white person still seems disproportionately likely to lead to a death sentence.

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