The Death Penalty is RACIALLY BIASED!!!

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83% ofThe Supreme Court in 1976 reinstated the death penalty; white inmates make up the majority of those under sentence of the death penalty.In  2001, 66 inmates were executed, and in 2000 there were 47 were executed. The population of adult males in the correctional institution increased by 2/3, meanwhile females’ numbers have doubled.  Over half of the prison increase since 1990 is because of the increase in prisoners convicted of violent offenses. The number of death row inmates is also on the rise but the incarceration rate has begun to level off. 

In the racial aspect whites abundance in prison only rose by 2/3, where as blacks almost doubled. 9% of the African American population in the United States was involved in some type of correctional supervision to the 2-1% in the other races.  From 1990-2000 Hispanics prisoners increased the fastest annually, then it was the whites, and then blacks.  Blacks were twice as likely than Hispanics to be jailed though and 5 times more likely over whites. capital cases involve white victims, while only 50% of murder victims are white. So, although only half of the murders out there have white victims, the "white victim cases" generate 83% of the execution verdicts. Thus, we can conclude that it is much more likely for someone to get the death penalty when the victim is white, than when the victim is of another ethnical descent. Black defendants accused of killing white people have the highest chance of receiving the death penalty. 
Case Example- Robert Bacon.
Robert Bacon is the man pictured above. He is a black man who went to trial for murdering his girlfriend's estranged (and white) husband. The trial that followed was scarred by much racial bias and the bias ultimately led to a death penalty verdict. How is this racially biased? Well, The hury that first convicted him was all white. Later, Mr. Bacon was able to get the trial thrown out and have a new trial. When the new jury was to be selected, of the 48 potential jurors, only 4 were black, and all were systematically weeded out. In the trial, Bacon was resentenced to death. At trial and in the resentencing hearing deliberations, jurors improperly considered race. At trial, jurors made racial jokes. Jurors from Bacon's resentencing hearing admitted that when they were deciding punishment they held it against Bacon that he was romantically involved with a white woman. Also, In this case, Bonnie Clark hatched the plot to kill her husband; she dominated Bacon and manipulated him into committing the killing. Yet, Bonnie Clark received a life sentence.

The Supreme Court in 1976 reinstated the death penalty; white inmates make up the majority of those under sentence of the death penalty.In  2001, 66 inmates were executed, and in 2000 there were 47 were executed. The population of adult males in the correctional institution increased by 2/3, meanwhile females’ numbers have doubled.  Over half of the prison increase since 1990 is because of the increase in prisoners convicted of violent offenses. The number of death row inmates is also on the rise but the incarceration rate has begun to level off. 

In the racial portion of  the death penalty are, whites abundance in prison only rose by 2/3, where as blacks almost doubled. 9% of the African American population in the United States was involved in some type of correctional supervision to the 2-1% in the other races.  From 1990-2000 Hispanics prisoners increased the fastest annually, then it was the whites, and then blacks.  Blacks were twice as likely than Hispanics to be jailed though and 5 times more likely over whites.

Issue:   September 2002, Justice Department reported Hispanics, African Americans, and other minorities receive the death penalty. Federal capital defendants account for 74% of these cases.

By Race of the Victim: “over 60 percent of murder victims since 1972 have been African American, but 20 of the 22 people executed during that period had murdered white victims. Georgia prosecutors seek the death penalty in 70 percent of cases involving crimes committed by blacks against white, but they seek the death penalty in less than 35 percent of cases involving other racial combinations.” (ACLU study).  Similar racial inequalities were in Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Virginia.

Background:  Justice Department under Bill Clinton found data evidence that minorities made up more than 3/4ths of defendants in capital punishment cases.  This led to the execution of Juan Raul Garza (Hispanic) guilty of 3 murders in 1993. His executions was delayed until June 19,2001, 8 days after Timothy McVeigh was executed. This delay allowed Clinton to take action against racially biased death penalty, killing a Hispanic after a Caucasian man. “These disparities also are due in part to discrimination in the administration of justice and to policies and practices that have an unjustified disparate impact on minorities and people of color.”

Death Penalty Critics: “Opponents of the death penalty have long argued that the system of putting criminals to death is unfair, favoring whites and the wealthy.”  Minorities and the poor have a lesser ability to access adequate legal representations, which has been found to be a prime indicator in the sentencing of a capital case issue.
 

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