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The Death Penalty & Race
By Janel Casto
Capital Punishment The penalty of death for the commission of a crime.
History of Death Penalty In the Eighteenth Century B.C. the first death penalty laws were established, by King Hammaurabi of Babylon, which 25 different crimes held the death penalty. Under the reign of Henry VIII during the Sixteenth Century, an estimated of 72,000 people were executed. Such as being boilied, burned at the stake, hanged, and beheaded. Some capital offenses were such as marrying a Jew, not confessing to a crime, and treason. From 1823 to 1837, the death penalty was eliminated for over 100 of the 222 crimes punishable by death.
American Indians and Injustice Since1976, 26 American Indians have been executed mainly for the murder of white victims.
In the 1980s a University of Iowa law professor David Baldus did a criminal sentencing study in Georgia. He found that prosecutors sought the death penalty for 70% of black defendants with white victims, but only 15% of black defendants with black victims. Similar patterns of racial bias are found across the country.
Overall national number of prisoners sentenced to the death penalty separated by race.
Injustice for All Studies in Arkansas showed it is more likely for black people who kill white people to be charged with capital murder and stances to death.
In 2007 42 persons in 10 states were executed -- 26 in Texas; 3 each in Alabama and Oklahoma; 2 each in Indiana, Ohio, and Tennessee; and 1 each in South Dakota, Georgia, South Carolina, and Arizona. All 42 inmates executed in 2007 were men Of those men 28 of them were white and 14 were black. Lethal injection was used in all but one execution by electrocution. Of persons under sentence of death in 2007: 1,804 were white, 1,345 were black, 26 were American Indian, 35 were Asian, 10 were of unknown race. Also a report sponsored by the American Bar Association in 2007 concluded that one-third of African-American death row inmates in Philadelphia would have received sentences of life imprisonment if they had not been AfricanAmerican.
A study done by professor John Donohue in Connecticut showed blacks received the death penalty three times as much a rate of a white defendant where the victim is white.
Donohue’s study also showed that the killer of a white victim is treated more severely then that who kill minorities.
Also minorities who kill whites receive the death penalty much more likely then minorities who murder minorities.
By Janel Casto
Capital Punishment The penalty of death for the commission of a crime.
History of Death Penalty In the Eighteenth Century B.C. the first death penalty laws were established, by King Hammaurabi of Babylon, which 25 different crimes held the death penalty. Under the reign of Henry VIII during the Sixteenth Century, an estimated of 72,000 people were executed. Such as being boilied, burned at the stake, hanged, and beheaded. Some capital offenses were such as marrying a Jew, not confessing to a crime, and treason. From 1823 to 1837, the death penalty was eliminated for over 100 of the 222 crimes punishable by death.
American Indians and Injustice Since1976, 26 American Indians have been executed mainly for the murder of white victims.
In the 1980s a University of Iowa law professor David Baldus did a criminal sentencing study in Georgia. He found that prosecutors sought the death penalty for 70% of black defendants with white victims, but only 15% of black defendants with black victims. Similar patterns of racial bias are found across the country.
Overall national number of prisoners sentenced to the death penalty separated by race.
Injustice for All Studies in Arkansas showed it is more likely for black people who kill white people to be charged with capital murder and stances to death.
In 2007 42 persons in 10 states were executed -- 26 in Texas; 3 each in Alabama and Oklahoma; 2 each in Indiana, Ohio, and Tennessee; and 1 each in South Dakota, Georgia, South Carolina, and Arizona. All 42 inmates executed in 2007 were men Of those men 28 of them were white and 14 were black. Lethal injection was used in all but one execution by electrocution. Of persons under sentence of death in 2007: 1,804 were white, 1,345 were black, 26 were American Indian, 35 were Asian, 10 were of unknown race. Also a report sponsored by the American Bar Association in 2007 concluded that one-third of African-American death row inmates in Philadelphia would have received sentences of life imprisonment if they had not been AfricanAmerican.
A study done by professor John Donohue in Connecticut showed blacks received the death penalty three times as much a rate of a white defendant where the victim is white.
Donohue’s study also showed that the killer of a white victim is treated more severely then that who kill minorities.
Also minorities who kill whites receive the death penalty much more likely then minorities who murder minorities.
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