A study of the death penalty for cases in Kentucky between 1976 and 1991 (T. Keil and G. Vito, Amer. J. Criminal Justice 20: 17—36, 1995) indicated that the defendant received the death penalty in 8% of the 391 cases in which a white killed a white, in 2% of the 108 cases in which a black killed a black, in 12% of the 57 cases in which a black killed a white, and in 0% of the 18 cases in which a white killed a black. Form the three-way contingency table, obtain the conditional odds ratios between the defendant’s race and the death penalty verdict, interpret those associations, study whether Simpson’s paradox occurs, and explain why the marginal association is so different from the conditional associations.