english: The slightly higher overall sentencing  rate for white defendants was due to the fact  that cases with white victims were more likely  to elicit a death sentence than cases where the victim was black, and most murders occurred between people of the same race.
non_english: Sveukupno nešto veća stopa osuđenih belih prestupnika je bila posledica činjenice da slučajevi sa belim žrtvama češće uzrokuju smrtnu kaznu od slučajeva gde je žrtva crnac, a većina ubistava se dešavala među ljudima iste rase.