From the day of slavery in which black people were considered property, through the years of lynching’s and Jim Crow law. Capital punishment has always and will always be deeply attach to race. Make no mistake, the days of racial bias in the death penalty was not left I the pass. A research conducted on race and capital punishment by David Baldus revealed, “The odds of receiving a death sentence are nearly four times (3.9) higher if the defendant is black”. A second study by Professor Jeffery Pokorak a researcher at St.Mary law school found that the “key decision makers in the death cases around the country are almost exclusively white men. Of the chief District Attorney in counties using the death penalty in the United States, nearly 98% are white and only 1% are African-American (deathpenaltyinfo.org).”
This evidence of discrimination is overwhelming and it will never change!
