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Thursday, May 14, 2015

Racial Bias Suffuses Capital Punishment In The United States

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Racial bias suffuses capital punishment in the United States. "While Baltimore was aflame last week, the US Supreme Court was addressing another burning issue — how the American state kills its prisoners. ... In theocratic states, apostates feature heavily on the rows of the condemned. In the US, it is African-Americans. Wherever the state chooses to play God, it tends to single out other people’s tribes. In the US, evidence of racial bias in capital sentencing is beyond doubt. It is not just that one in three of the people executed in America are black. It is that they tend to be executed for killing whites. Between 1977 and 2013, 47 per cent of all murder victims in America were black... Yet only 17 per cent of the victims were black in cases that resulted in execution." The Financial Times





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