Your qualification questions are a bit insulting. Of course I believe there is racism in the justice system. There is clear evidence of that and I, a man of color, have experienced it. I do not believe however that there is racism in the death penalty. I believe the numbers I have found show otherwise.
I believe, because the numbers support it, that a white man is far more likely to be executed than a black man. That more black men are arrested for violent crime but more white men killed.
Now if you want to argue that when a black man kills a white person (especially a woman) he's going to be killed, I am pretty confident (without seeing the numbers) that you're right.
I think that to make a blanket statement that black men are more affected by the death penalty than whites is wrong.
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Date: 8/3/10 21:43 (UTC)I believe, because the numbers support it, that a white man is far more likely to be executed than a black man. That more black men are arrested for violent crime but more white men killed.
Now if you want to argue that when a black man kills a white person (especially a woman) he's going to be killed, I am pretty confident (without seeing the numbers) that you're right.
I think that to make a blanket statement that black men are more affected by the death penalty than whites is wrong.