The Racial Bias of Capital Punishment in America

Through ethnographic prejudice history of the death penalty in the United States, ethnic minorities are under-represented in the criminal justice system. In the early days of the United States, black people were killed due to a slight violation of the informal law and many murders were done without legitimate procedures. Along with the maturity of the judicial system, ethnic minorities found better representatives, but they are not entirely fair. Strict management measures have been implemented over the past two decades, but the system still has signs of racial prejudice. This racial prejudice was originally acknowledged by Fullman v. Supreme Court.

The issue of racial discrimination during the execution of capital punishment has been debated over the years. A recent article by Republican president Frank Keating of Oklahoma states "The death penalty in the United States is a deliberate and prudent process and the built-in appeal treats all beliefs carefully and rigorously." 4) The expression of racial prejudice in the death penalty is not entirely true. Of the 68 murderers executed in 1998, 48 were white people.

Racial prejudice plays an important role in the application of the death penalty in the United States, the death penalty is disproportionate to people with different skin tones. Although this idea can not be thought of by many Americans, the US Supreme Court clearly admits this sneaky practice and the court ruled on the racial differences of the death penalty of McLean key and camp in the case of 1987. It does not violate personal constitutional rights "equality" protection law. "Under the Constitution, it is stipulated that a capital defendant has the right to be a fair fair jury, but fair juries are often excluded for race, in some cases an unfair public prosecutor Will deliberately exclude race based juries, people in color mistakenly believe that they can not act fairly as a jury and can not comply with the law

One of the biggest problems of the death penalty is the imbalance of the people. The jury distributed the death penalty to minorities rather than whites. "The opponents of the death penalty believe that racial prejudice representing prosecutors, judges and jurors has resulted in an excessive number of prisoners and death sentences of the US-I" ("Problem"). If the victim is Caucasian, the accused is a colored person and it is highly likely that he will be sentenced to death. In 2002, 12 accused were executed, of whom the accused was Caucasian, the victim of murder was black.

Given that racial discrimination is spreading at all levels of the criminal justice system, it is unlikely that Gates will become the final defendant sentenced to death by a racially elected jury. Especially the racial prejudice against black Americans left a sign that will not disappear in our death penalty system. The only way to correct this history is to abolish the death penalty at one time.