COMPLETE, UTTER NONSENSE
The ACLU says that blacks convicted of capital crimes against whites are more likely to be sentenced to death than if they had committed capital crimes against other minorities. Read that again, go ahead, I'll wait...
From the ACLU website:
Today Chris Hill, State Strategies Coordinator for our Capital Punishment Project, blogged in DailyKos about the ongoing racial disparities in death penalty sentences in the U.S., and especially when it comes to punishing certain crimes. He writes:
The 2003 Amnesty study found racial bias in the death penalty systems of North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, Texas, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio and New Jersey. The problem cited by Amnesty in most of those states was that defendants were more likely to be sentenced to death if their victim was white and that the racial configuration most likely to receive capital punishment is black defendants convicted of killing white victims.
Similar studies have shown the existence of the same racial bias in the death penalty systems of California, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Maryland and North Carolina. An American Sociological Review article from 2007 showed that minorities capitally sentenced for killing white people were more likely to have their sentences carried out than minorities who kill non-whites. One of the authors of the study said, "[w]hite lives are still valued more than black ones when it comes to deciding who gets executed and who does not." (emphasis mine)
So, by this logic, we should only be allowed to convict, and sentence to death, the worst of society, on a one for one exchange basis? Kill a black you now must kill a white? Then to be fair, let's kill a Latino and an Asian too! We have to be fair, right? I'm sure there's a few in prison who got life instead of the death penalty.
Did my tax money go to fund this waste of time? Does this logic suggest the need for more cases of whites killing blacks be prosecuted just to even things out?
It's a common known fact that more violent crime is committed by blacks and other 'minorities' regardless of who the victim's are, even though they are a fraction of the population. If they are sentenced to death more often if there if victims were white than black, so what! The crime is the same and the end result is moot.
Would it make everyone happier if more whites killed more blacks, to bring the numbers up to comparable levels, and then were sentenced to death more often than for killing other whites? Your logic is complete, utter nonsense.
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