RACIAL DIFFERENTIALS BETWEEN PRE-FURMAN AND POST-FURMAN OFFENDERS SENTENCED TO DEATH WERE EXAMINED AS WELL AS CHARACTERISTICS OF OFFENDERS SENTENCED UNDER MANDATORY AND GUIDED SELECTION STATUTES. A DETAILED CHI SQUARE ANALYSIS WAS COMPLETED COMPARING MANDATORY AND GUIDED DISCRETION STATUTES AND CHARACTERISTICS OF THE OFFENDER, VICTIM, CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE OFFENSE, AND TRIAL. FINDINGS INCLUDE THAT ALTHOUGH THE PROPORTION OF NONWHITE MURDER VICTIMS IS CONSISTENTLY HIGHER THAN FIFTY PERCENT, EIGHTY-SEVEN PERCENT OF THE VICTIMS OF DEATH ROW INMATES INCLUDED IN THE STUDY WERE WHITE, WITH THE PROPORTION OF WHITE VICTIMS BEING EIGHTY-ONE PERCENT IN MANDATORY STATES AND NINETY-TWO PERCENT IN GUIDED DISCRETION STATES. THE AUTHOR CONCLUDES THAT THERE IS NO EVIDENCE TO SUGGEST THAT POST-FURMAN STATUTES HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL IN REDUCING THE DISCRETION WHICH LEADS TO A DISPROPORTIONATE NUMBER OF NONWHITE OFFENDERS BEING SENTENCED TO DEATH.