Jury BiasWith jury bias, we examined that perspective taking, victim statements, and victim race had no main effects with ps > 0.26 and no significant interaction either with ps > 0.64. The race of the jury was divided into white and non-white participants. An ANOVA was then conducted with perspective taking, victim statements, and victim race as factors between participants to test empathy felt toward the accused, toward the victim, toward the victim's loved ones. 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 were observed between factors, ps > .08.Non-White participants. A similar result did not occur when victim empathy was black. No main effect was observed with a ps > 0.20 nor any significant interaction with a ps > 0.06. One possible explanation for this is that most of the participants in the participant pool were white, and of the non-white participants, only a certain percentage were black. Racial attitude Explicit racial attitude. No main effects or significant two- or three-way interactions in a participant's explicit anti-black racial attitude were observed. A significant interaction was observed between victim reports and victim race on explicit pro-black racial attitude with F(1,107) = 4.916, p = .029. Wi...... middle of article ...... jurors and their sentencing or decision-making in our study, but further research could be done just on how attitude Politics could also influence jury decision-making. In conclusion, we have seen that the race of the victim and the emotionality of their statement strongly affect the empathy of the jury and could therefore influence their decision-making. Understanding the interplay between racial out-group/group membership and empathy can allow defense attorneys to influence jurors to demand harsher racial out-group and more lenient sanctions. for internal groups by playing on the empathy of jurors and thus putting emotions before the law. and reason. Therefore, 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 must be studied in more detail..