Although the seminal importance of the Baldus, Woodworth, and Pulaski (1990) study as an investigation of the influence of race on death penalty outcomes and its legal implications is certain, it is also clear that much can be learned by revisiting the data. In an early review of the study, Kleck (1991) notes perceptively that, whereas the data are impressive, from a social science perspective, much exists in the study for scholars to reexamine. Because the study is focused so narrowly on issues of race significant to the litigation in McCleskey v. Kemp (1987), many explanatory and methodological issues are left unexplored. To our knowledge, the only published study that uses the Baldus, Woodworth, and Pulaski (1990) data is Beck and Shumsky’s (1997) study that reports that cases with appointed counsel are more likely to result in a death sentence than those with privately retained counsel.15 Various reasons may exist for this, but contributing factors likely include the size of the data set and the complexity of the analyses as well as the presentation of the findings within the original text. With so many footnotes and appendices, even the most dedicated readers can become quickly overwhelmed (see Kleck, 1991).