The vast majority of judges will never confront the challenge of dealing with the death penalty. And so A new study confirms racial and sentencing disparities in capital cases which “.. found that prosecutors were significantly more likely to seek death against defendants who kill white victims, and that juries were significantly more likely to sentence those defendants to death.”  might not seem relevant. JOURNAL OF EMPIRICAL LEGAL STUDIES. But perhaps there is a larger message behind the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies finding: if it happens in death penalty cases what about the kind of cases I preside over? Something to think about.