With all due respect, too many coincidences. Police statistics in the United States are littered with racism and discrimination. It’s not even a close call… The findings are absolutely earth shattering. I’ve written just a few notes for you. People of color live under a completely different legal system of “justice” than whites. It’s called institutional racism.
South - highest murder rate yet the most deaths by state sanctioned death penalty… how’s that deterrent working so far?? It’s not. ?
The murder rate was 1.7 times higher in the South, which carries out the most executions of any region, accounting for 80% of executions.
The Northeast, which has less than 1% of all executions, had lowest murder
The trend in most industrialized nations has been to first stop executing prisoners. The United States is an exception to this trend.
In Louisiana, the odds of a death sentence were 97% higher for those whose victim was white than for those whose victim was black.”
Jurors in Washington state are three times more likely to recommend a death sentence for a black defendant than for a white defendant in a similar case
A study in California found that those who killed whites were over 3 times more likely to be sentenced to death than those who killed blacks and over 4 times more likely than those who killed Latinos.