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Mushmouth
04-11-2017, 06:29 AM
According to statistics from the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC), an organisation that researches capital punishment, more black Americans were sentenced to death in 2016 than any other ethnic group combined, with 17 new death sentences.


Dunham says that, particularly in the south of the US, the death penalty cannot be understood without taking racial history into consideration. "It is in very significant part an outgrowth and vestige of the legacy of slavery, lynching and the racially biased laws and law enforcement practices of the pre-civil rights era."

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/04/struggle-america-racist-death-row-170409094601240.html