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Elijah Jones

Laurie Oberg

English 11

November 5, 2015

Does race affect their death penalty sentence

Is there racism during the trails when they have the death penalty sentence

that is issued? Is there a fair trial though out the sentence when a person of color in

the court? In the court the whites control the sentence of the death penalty when

there is a trail it is supposed to be fair trail when anyone is sentence to the death

penalty. When there is death penalty people say that it is a fair trial to colors so that

what they get they deserve it. Other people say that the court can be raciest and

that the white folks get a better deal in the death sentence than any other race.

What I think that we can be both because sometime we are mean to the color and

give them a harder sentence than the colors and it can be the opposite side also.

When the death penalty happen to the colors people say that they deserve

what they get and the white folks get doesnt deserve that they get. Kent

Scheidegger did a research about race doesnt affect where they get the death

penalty or not and he said Research we have to date does not prove or even raise

a reasonable suspicion that race is a significant factor in either the charging

decision or the sentencing decision in California capital cases. So when someone is

on the death penalty they should get what they deserve. Other research what that

that America think that this is the right way to do so that criminals think is the right

way. These are two good capital punishment that America supports. First, there is
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little evidence to suggest that minorities are treated unfairly. Second, capital

punishment produces a strong deterrent effect that saves lives. So that when

someone thinks that death penalty is racist they just need to find the evidence.

The proportion of whites to blacks that have been sentenced to death is a rather disturbing

number that happens when they are been givin death penalty. The ACLU wrote People of color have

accounted for a disproportionate 43% of total executions since 1976 and 55% of those currently awaiting

execution. That when the Reacher did this they realized that have of the 2/3 of the colors are in the death

penalty. This proves that there is not only something wrong with the role of color in deciding whether or

not someone deserves the death sentence, but also with the death sentence itself. The amount of people of

color being executed is not only alarming since it is ending a persons life, but since it indirectly keeps

them as the minority.

There is no reason to believe that the government is anything but uncertain

in terms of how it handles the death sentence. People of color have been the

majority of those sentenced to death empirically, the people in the death sentence

are more of color then of the white people, even the argument that people of color

commit more crimes is an invalid argument since most of the people who commit

crimes are white.

Work cited

http://deathpenalty.procon.org/view.answers.php?questionID=001187