Jury BiasWith jury bias we examined that perspective taking, victim impact statements, and victim race had no main effects with ps > 0, 26 and no significant interaction even with ps > 0.64.Jury RaceThe Jury race was divided into white and non-white participants. An ANOVA was then performed considering perspective, victim impact statements, and victim race as between-participant factors to test empathy felt for the defendant, the victim, significant others in the victim. White participants. We observed that there was a main effect with jury race and empathy felt by the jury for the victim. The empathy felt by the jury for the White victim when the jury was White (M = 5.781, SD = 0.243) was significantly higher than the empathy felt by the jury when the jury was non-White (M = 4.676, SD = 0.449) with F(1,49) = 6.256, p = 0.016. No other main effects or significant two- or three-way interactions between factors were observed, ps > 0.08. Non-white participants. A similar result was not replicated when the victim's empathy was black. There were no main effects observed at ps > 0.20 or significant interactions observed at ps > 0.06. One possible explanation for this is that the majority of participants in the participant group were white and in the nonwhite participant group only a certain percentage were black. Racial attitude Explicit racial attitude. No main effects or significant two- or three-way interactions were observed in a participant's explicit anti-Black racial attitude. A significant interaction between victim impact statements and victim race on explicit pro-Black racial attitudes was observed with F (1,107) = 4.916, p = 0.029. With... half of the paper... of jurors' sentences or decisions in our study, but further research could be done solely on how political attitudes might influence jury decision-making as well. In conclusion, we have seen that the race of the victim and the emotionality of the victim's statements strongly influence the jury's empathy and therefore could influence their decision making. Understanding the interaction between racial in-group/out-group and empathy can allow defense attorneys to guide jurors toward harsher punishments for racial out-groups and more lenient punishments for in-groups, playing on jurors' empathy and prioritizing so the emotions to the law. and reason. Consequently, in any capital punishment case, the race of the victim and the race of the jury could mean the difference between life and death for a defendant and therefore need to be studied further...