“Live From Death Row”
“Defendants charged with killing whites are 4.3 times more likely to be sentenced to die that defendants charged with killing blacks: six of every eleven defendants convicted of killing a white would not have received a death sentence had their victim been black.”
-excerpt from “Live From Death Row, pg 12″
The reason I chose this passage is not surprising. The general idea that is mentioned in the quote is shocking. If this doesn’t scream…RACISM!, I don’t know what does. This is horrible. To simply comprehend the atrociousness of this “fact” is truly mind-boggling. The utter sheerness of the truth seems to make this statement more appealing. If the circumstances were altered or changed I would definitely think that a majority of the American population would feel a little more comfortable, or would they? How would people react? Would they feel the same, or would contradictions run wild? These question seems all to easy. But I’ll leave that for you to decide.
