[dfc]

Relevancy: Many people believe that minorities are disproportionately sentenced to death.

[kohanz]

Then why would the Texas Department of Justice want to draw attention to that?

[dfc]

Because in politics the cover up is often more damaging than the initial transgression? Because the state does not feel that they have done anything wrong and therefore has nothing to gain by appearing to hide information from the public?

[lrm242]

Or because there is nothing to hide?

From the data:

  White    231 (44.9%)
  Black    190 (36.9%)
  Hispanic  92 (17.9%)
  Other      2 (0.4%)

[jeorgun]

So the proportion of black Texan executionees being three times higher than the proportion of Black Texans isn't in any way noteworthy?

[Peaker]

Aren't blacked extremely over-represented in that list?

[pathikrit]

No Asian person has been executed?

[dfc]

I think Asian is included under other.

[mikeash]

How do you start from a table that lists percentages that are completely out of line with the percentages in the general population, and turn that into "there is nothing to hide"?

[gcb0]

...because it's not.