McCLESKEY v. KEMP, 481 U.S. 279 (1987)

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http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/mccleskey.html

This case presents the question whether a complex statistical study that indicates a risk that racial considerations enter into capital sentencing determinations proves that petitioner McCleskey's capital sentence is unconstitutional under the Eighth or Fourteenth Amendment.

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