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Best of AP — Honorable Mention

Study obtained by AP finds victims’ race factors into Pennsylvania death sentences

By ​Mark Scolforo

Mark Scolforo, reporter, Harrisburg, for obtaining exclusively a draft report of a study commissioned by the state senate that concluded that the victim’s race is a factor in the imposition of capital punishment in the Keystone State. http://bit.ly/2zwAEji

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By The Associated Press

OCT. 27, 2017

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