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In this early period, there were a number of cases where persons who had committed a capital crime in Detroit were transported to Montreal for trial and execution. The first person known to be executed in Michigan was an Aboriginal North American named Folle-Avoine. The first person executed under US Jurisdiction was a Native American named Buhnah.
A 1995 study by Jonathan Sorensen and Donald H. Wallace found evidence of a racial bias in capital punishment in Missouri, mainly in regards to the race of the victim. The study found that cases with white victims were more likely to result in death sentences, and that cases with black victims were less likely to result in such sentences.
BAMN, 572 U.S. 291 (2014), was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States concerning affirmative action and race- and sex-based discrimination in public university admissions. In a 6-2 decision, the Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment 's Equal Protection Clause does not prevent states from enacting bans on affirmative ...
race discrimination and the death penalty Pennsylvania v. Finley: 481 U.S. 551 (1987) right to counsel in post-conviction proceedings Saint Francis College v. al-Khazraji: 481 U.S. 604 (1987) persons of Arabian ancestry may make claims for race discrimination under 42 U.S.C. § 1981: Hodel v. Irving: 481 U.S. 704 (1987)
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In the punishment phase of the federal capital case against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in 2015 for the Boston Marathon bombing, the convict was given the death penalty. Opinion polls in the state of Massachusetts, where the crime and the trial transpired, "showed that residents overwhelmingly favored life in prison for Mr. Tsarnaev.
A hair salon in northern Michigan is facing a discrimination charge from the state's Department of Civil Rights after its owner posted on social media earlier this year that anyone identifying as ...
Krystal Davis-Dunn, who also claims she was not provided disability accommodations, filed a federal lawsuit against Ingham County Jan. 5 in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan ...