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__Information__ citation: "Legislation Will Help Prevent Racial Bias in Death Penalty Convictions." //Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context//. Ed. Christine Watkins. N.p., 2011. Web. 1 May 2011. . Author’s credentials: While this source does not have a particular author the creators of the article Gale Opposing Viewpoints is a scholarly source. They have a reputation for reliable and credible information that is used by high school students. Scope and purpose of the work: The source is an overview of the view that legislation will help prevent racial bias in death penalty convictions. Gives an overview of this view and is also a persuasive piece in it is trying to convince the reader to think like the creators of the article and believe that legislation will help prevent racial bias in death penalty convictions. Intended audience: The intended audience of this source is a person who has background knowlege on the subject at hand and for scholarly people. __Summary__ Identify the author’s thesis: The author’s thesis deals with giving an overview of how race has impacted the decisions of capital punishment in North Carolina. It also deals with making known that this new legislation will help prevent racial bias in future death penalty convictions. What position does the author take?: The author takes the position that this new legislation will lead to less racial bias when sentencing a person to death. The legislation will allow capital murder defendants and death row intimates the right to challenge prosecutions on grounds of racial bias. __Evidence?__ The evidence the creators of the source give to support their arguments are some statistics. In North Carolina there are over 160 inmates on death row. 20 percent of the North Carolina population is made up of African American and out of all those on death row in North Carolina 60 percent of them are African American. The Racial Justice Act was endorsed in 2009 to allow capital murder defendants and death row inmates the right to challenge prosecutions on the grounds of racial bias. The North Carolina NAACP civil rights group had pushed for the North Carolina Racial Justice Act for over three years. African Americans in North Carolina were twice as likely to receive the death penalty. __Evaluation__ Evaluation of research: The work is logical, clear, and well-researched. Those who created this article are well qualified and have done a good deal of research on this topic, as is seen with all the statistics they give. Evaluation of scope: The topic brought up in this article is well addressed and provides evidence on how race impacts whether one receives the death penalty or not. It also gives information on the Racial Justice Act in North Carolina being able to prevent this bias. An average person can easily understand what is being said. Evaluation of author bias: The author is obviously biased toward this legislation reducing/preventing the racial bias involved with capital punishment as seen right away in the title of the article. They give statistics that support that racial bias does exist and that this legislation could prevent it. __Reflection__ Is this source helpful to your research?: This source was very helpful for my research. From this source I learned how race does have an impact on those committed of serious crimes and who gets sentenced to the death penalty. It gave evidence that more African Americans in North Carolina were on death row than the other races even though they make up on twenty percent of the whole North Carolina population. It helped me develop my argument by giving one view point on how race impacts capital punishment.