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Death penalty negatively impacts Natives
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 2003 Before tribes were allowed to opt out of the federal death penalty, American Indians were put to death at a disproportionately higher rate, The Gallup Independent reports. A study by the Capital Punishment Research Project found that 19 percent of the 340 men and women executed prior to 1994 were Native Americans. Native Americans make up less than 1 percent of the general population. In 1994, Congress passed the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act to allow tribes to opt out of the federal death penalty for first-degree murder cases. But tribes cannot opt out for certain drug-related and "general applicability" crimes because Congress reinstated the death penalty for these cases. Get the Story:
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