It has been common knowledge among many African-Americans that a black person is more likely to be sentenced to death than a person from another race. Now a new study says it has finally proven this common knowledge. Past studies have shown that a defendant is more likely to be sentenced to death row if they kill a white person as opposed to a black person. But the new study also detected a more straightforward disparity. It found that the race of the defendant by itself plays a major role in explaining who is sentenced to death.
The new study comes to us by Scott Phillips, a professor of Sociology at the University of Denver, and his study will be published in the Houston Law Review.
The State Of . . . Blacks on Death Row. As J can tell you, a number of wrong turns in life as a black man in the south can lead you to incarceration. It doesn’t take much after that for a zealous persecutor prosecutor to make his bones by sending another black man to death row. We’ve seen these studies before and I (rich) don’t think they make a difference in the minds of the technicians of death.
In the South, a murder committed by a black man is almost an automatic death sentence, especially in TX and AL.