• The New York Times studies show that minorities (blacks) who kill whites are more likely to be sentenced to death than whites who murder blacks.(1)

• For every 14 blacks executed for killing a white person only 1 white is executed for killing a black person according to studies.(1)

• According to studies conducted by the Charlotte Observer, it found out the minorities are 3 more times likely to get penalty for killing a white person.(2)

• Other finding show that jurors, defense attorneys, investigators, and prosecutors use aggressive languages towards minorities.(2)

• Minorities (blacks) make up only 13% of the U.S. population, but comprise 40% of death-row inmates.(3)

• The poor and the middle class, which are more likely to be minorities, must depend on court appointed lawyers or a public defenders who are inexperienced and poorly paid. This factor play a part in the fate of the defendant.(4)

• Studies also show that 84% of death row inmates have been convicted of killing a white person even though minorities (blacks) and whites are victims of murder in equal numbers.(4)

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