In 2000 the U. S. Department of Justice released a study of the death penalty from 1995 to 2000, a period during which U.S. Attorneys were required to submit to the Justice Department for review and approval all cases in which they sought the death sentence.

(The report can be found at http://www.usdoj.gov/dag/pubdoc/_dp_survey_final.pdf.) The data were broken down by whether the U.S. attorney recommended seeking the death penalty and by the race of the victim (not the defendant). These data are summarized below.

Death Sentence Recommendation Victim’s race Yes No Total Non-White 388 228 616 Row proportion .630 .370 1.000 White 202 76 278 Row proportion .726 .274 1.000 Total 590 304 894 Col. % .660 .340 What would you conclude from looking at this table?