The Death Penalty in the United States Continues to Reflect Our Nation's PrejudiceAgainst Black Americans.

According to The Death Penalty Information Center
45% of the population on death row is White
43% of the population on death row is Black
9% of the population on death row is Hispanic

Of the 18,000 people legally executed in the United States from the inception of this nation to 1990, only 30 were white people convicted of killing black people. Of course, this figure does not reflect the thousands of black people who have been lynched, during that same period of time.
Black males represent less than 7 percent of the population, but almost half of the prison population.

Persons Executed for Interracial Murders: White Defendant/Black Victim - 12
Black Defendant/White Victim - 174
The racial combination which is most likely to result in a death sentence is a black defendant with a nonblack victim, regardless of how severe the murder committed.
Black-on-black crimes are less likely to receive a death sentence, blacks who kill nonblacks are more likely to receive the death penalty than blacks who kill blacks, and they have a death sentencing rate much larger than the rate for defendants of other races who commit similarly severe murders of black victims.
Against The Death Penalty
These numbers support the fact that there are those out there that still consider a white person's life more valuable than a black person's life.