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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
There are charts and graphs and data crunches on all kinds of things. THIS one is exclusively about "murderers executed in the category of the race of the victim."
You can find other charts and graphs and data crunches on "murderers executed in the category of the race of the murderer" online, but this one is not that.
In the very narrow scope of "murderers executed in the category of race of the victim" based on this one singular study - people who kill black people tend to go free significantly more often than people who kill white people.
If you can find a study from a credible source that indicates that murderers of white and black victims are executed equally, or that murderers of black people are executed more often than murderers of white people, I'd love to see the source.
If you're looking at other types of data, well they won't necessarily have anything to do with this type of data. Knowing whether or not (for example) the murderer was wearing a hat at the time of the murder, has nothing to do with the color of his victim.
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You seem to misunderstand my point. The “Stop and Frisk” policy was stopped in NYC because most of the people frisked and most of those arrested and most of those imprisoned were African-American, even though they made up a minority of the population. The BLM movement argues that police brutality is mostly against young African-American males. They want equality, which is not for MORE European-Americans to be frisked and arrested and brutalized, but for FEWER African-Americans to be treated that way. That seems like a solid argument, even if one could respond that criminals are being arrested and imprisoned—not innocent people.
But what is the intent of this new study? Is it suggesting that this is another example of the authorities not really caring about African-American victims because if they did, in the name of equality, they would execute 17 times as many murderers of African-Americans in the name of equality? Really? Are they saying that racist juries don’t care enough about African-American lives to sentence more murderers to death? I’m in favor of the death penalty, accomplished quickly and painlessly and inexpensively, for nearly all first degree murderers, but is that really what they are asking for? Most of those executed would be African-Americans. This seems like such a peculiar thing to complain about, given that the Times is opposed to the death penalty.