The data in the following table are taken from an article in the New York Times (April 2...

The data in the following table are taken from an article in the New York Times (April 20, 2001), “Victim’s Race Affects Killer’s Sentence.” The data are from a study of all homicide cases in North Carolina for the period 1993–1997 in which it was possible that a murder conviction would result in the death penalty. Such data have played an important role in the debate about the death penalty in the U.S., the only wealthy western nation which imposes it. Qualitatively, what do you conclude from looking at the numbers? Discuss whether it is appropriate to use a chi-square test to test that the combination of the victim’s race and the defendant’s race was independent of whether the defendant received the death penalty for convicted murderers in North Carolina during the years 1993–1997.