Existing comment:
The United States has a long history of racial discrimination in the use of the death penalty. For much of our history, death penalty laws have been overtly discriminatory. 96% of states where there have been reviews of race and the death penalty show patterns of either race-of-victim or race-of-defendant discrimination. States executed 295 Black defendants when their victim was white. In comparison, states only executed 21 white defendants when the victim was Black. |