Taking into consideration the findings exemplified by the table and graph, it is most accurate to conclude that this study did not answer all of the questions frequently asked about the death penalty. However, these graphs revealed that there is some fairly strong and compelling evidence of racially differentiated outcomes, particularly in the case of death penalty sentences. The bar graph above depicts the race of the defendant. This graph is important because by analyzing it, approximately two-hundred sixty whites were executed. The white and black bar graphs seem to be disproportionate.
Blacks only make up twelve percent of the United States population.
Yet their graph is not that much lower than that of whites. It would be expected that the graph of blacks to be more on par with the latino bar graph. Both populations of the blacks and latinos are similar in size. The table above shows the race of the victim and the race of the defendant. This table is interesting because when the defendant is black, there are more executions if the victim was white.