Court Case
McCleskey v. Kemp
The Supreme Court rejected an equal-protection and Eighth Amendment challenge to Georgia's death penalty despite statistical evidence of racial disparities, requiring proof of intentional discrimination in the individual case.
Year
1987
Impact
Negative
Status
Active
Party
Unknown
Era
Post Civil Rights Era
Impact Context
The ruling made it substantially harder to use systemic statistical evidence to challenge racial disparities in criminal punishment.
What This Policy Did
The ruling made it substantially harder to use systemic statistical evidence to challenge racial disparities in criminal punishment.
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