1. The Time Has Passed For Death Row
Especially if it was a black person who murdered a white person. (national) The death penalty seems to be racially discordant because it seems to count white lives as more valuable than black lives. Since 1976 when it was reinstated, 158 black defendants have been executed for the murder of a white victim, while only eleven white defendants have been executed for the life taken of a black victim. ... During the same twenty-eight years over 650 people have been executed. ... That is an unbelievably high amount of people who should have never even been condemned. ...
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