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Americans feared that mixed-race citizens would be able to reap the benefits of being white and so instituted laws to prevent that. Mixed-race citizens could legally categorize themselves as white because of their ability to self-report race to the census bureau, the requirement of choosing only one racial category, and the ability of those who ...
Each U.S. state has a recording act, a statute which dictates the legal procedure by which an individual claiming an interest in real property (real estate) formally establishes their claim to that property. The recordation of property rights becomes particularly significant where an unscrupulous dealer in land purports to sell the same tract ...
Kraemer, 334 U.S. 1 (1948), is a landmark [1] United States Supreme Court case that held that racially restrictive housing covenants (deed restrictions) cannot legally be enforced. The case arose after an African-American family purchased a house in St. Louis that was subject to a restrictive covenant preventing "people of the Negro or ...
However, the first execution in Texas after this decision would not take place until December 7, 1982, with that of Charles Brooks, Jr. Brooks was also the first person to be judicially executed by lethal injection in the world. In the post-Gregg era, Texas has executed 591 people, making it the state with the highest number of executions. [11]
Once the state has set an execution date death-row inmates may litigate their competency to be executed in habeas corpus proceedings. Hall v. Florida, 572 U.S. 701 (2014) – IQ tests alone can not be used as a rigid limit for determining intellectual disability. Moore v. Texas, No. 15-797, 581 U.S. ___ (2017) Dunn v. Madison, No. 17-193, 583 U ...
Executions of white defendants for killing black victims are rare. The number of white people executed for killing a black person is significantly lower than all other racial combinations. As of January 2022, just 21 white people had been executed for killing a black victim, making up only 1.36 percent of all executions. [5]
Tabler is set to be executed at 7 p.m. ET, one hour after the 6 p.m. execution of James Dennis Ford in Florida. They're set to become the nation's fourth and fifth executions this year.
Equal Credit Opportunity Act (1974) - Prohibited discrimination by creditors against applicants on the basis of race with respect to any aspect of a credit transaction; Community Reinvestment Act (1977) - limited redlining; Civil Rights Act of 1982 - Established uniform procedures for the enforcement by the Federal Government of civil rights ...