Race and the Death Penalty

[Destina Faroda]

Normally, I don't pay attention to YahooNews, but this article caught my eyes.  It's on the results of a study that says what has long been accepted as conventional wisdom -- kill a white person and you die, kill a non-white and you live.  I'm not going to copy and paste it because it's long, and if you don't want to read it, you don't have to.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050922/ap_on_re_us/california_death_penalty
While to me this is one of those stories that is so obvious it didn't need a study, I fail to understand why there are still people who believe that there is no institutional racism.

[Darkmoon]

Wel it's interesting. I do have to give California credit for not handing out the deal penalty disproportianely to the accused, even if it seems like they define a murdered white person as a bigger loss.

[Esnel Pla]

http://a.domaindlx.com/epla/wpbp.swf