User:Carrington24/Capital punishment in the United States/Hgarth Peer Review

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 * Whose work are you reviewing?

Carrington24


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 * Carrington24/Capital punishment in the United States/


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 * Capital punishment in the United States

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From Dr. Garth:

You will want to provide citations for these two sentences, possibly more than one per sentence: "Capital punishment in the United States has a strong correlation with the history of slavery and lynchings in the United States. States where slavery was legal before the Civil War also saw high numbers of lynchings of Black people by white mobs throughout the end of the 19th century and throughout the 20th century."

List the states in parentheses maybe?

maybe break out a few state-based examples too?

Create internal wikipedia Hyperlinks to other things with wiki pages like Black Codes, Jim Crow, NAACP,

Add citations for each of these sentences: "During the middle of the 20th century, a period of mass incarceration occurred in the United States. This caused the prison population to turn mostly Black by the 1990s whereas it was mostly white in previous years. The prison population had increased from 196,441 people in 1970 to 1.6 million by 2008"

I think you can also significantly expand this historical component and the contemporary component. I suggest you read The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander and several more scholarly sources that are not just the Death Penalty Information Center. Wikipedia wants to see a variety of high quality sources, you need at least 5-10 more for what you have here and then you should expand this portion considerably more. You should also plan to add various sentences about race to the other parts fo the article, ie the opening part and peppered throughout the rest of the article where it makes logical sense

Another area you can expand is getting information about race states by method:--ie what % of Black vs non-black groups are executed with each of these?


 * Lethal injection in South Carolina (unless the drugs to use it are unavailable).
 * Electrocution in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee and South Carolina (Primary method)
 * Gas chamber in Arizona and California.
 * Firing squad in Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Utah.

Similarly what are the racial breakdowns for

Clemency and commutations? add that info there