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Originally Posted by Bitsy  Absolutely. The system is definitely racially biased. You can argue that it is the minorities committing more crimes, BUT, even if that is true, it doesn't change the fact that it is REALLY hard to convict a pretty, white, young, woman to death row.
The case would absolutely have been different if she wasn't pretty, white, and young.
This is JUST MY OPINION. |
And once again, I go back to darlie router. Pretty, young, Caucasian and currently waiting for an execution date for killing her son.
And statistics show that more caucasian prisoners are put to death than African American or Hispanic .
82% of the murder victims in death penalty cases are white, 13% are black,* a 6:1 ratio (NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF), 1996). Interestingly, whites represent 56% of those executed, and blacks 38% (NAACP LDF, Summer 1996) when blacks have committed 47% of all murders, and whites 38%. Whites are executed at rates nearly 50% above their involvement in murder, blacks are executed at rates 20% below their involvement in murder. From 1991-94, 34% of murderers have been white, 54% black (Special run 1980-94 BJS data, 1/13/97
Women represent 1% of all executions, however women prison populations are nowhere near as high as men's. There is 1 womens prison to every 5 men's. Ratio of men to women on death row? 68:1.