The argument supporting the side of the matter which says that the death penalty is racially biased is that it is statistically more likely for a person who kills a white person to get the death penalty than it is for a person who kills a person of a minority ethnic background.  People that kill whites in North Carolina are three and a half times more likely to get the death penalty than someone who kills a non-white.  The discrepancy is not in the race of the defendant, but in the race of the victim.

    The argument supporting the side that says there is no racial bias in the death penalty is that the murders involving white victims are more likely to be more highly aggravated homicides.  In North Carolina murders involving minority victims constitute only 31 percent of the homicides that had a felony associated with them.  Similarly, only eight percent of multiple-victim homicides involved minority victims.

    After having been exposed to various statistics and the opinions of the statistitions who obtained those statistics, we have decided that there is no racial bias present in the death penalty.  Where there are more people being put to death for murdering white people, these crimes, statistically speaking, are more likely to have other factors which would make the death penalty more appropriate.  Examples of these factors are rape, the manner in which the victim is killed, and also the number of victims involved.