USA: death by discrimination - time to halt executions

Minjok-Tongshin ^ | 4.27.03

[ladyinred]

To show how PC the world is, I hesitate to comment on this, but here goes. If more blacks have committed murder than other races, then that might be why they are on death row. In California they need not worry as it is doubtful they will ever be executed anyway.

[Reactionary]

"The death penalty in the United States of America remains an act of racial injustice as well as an inherently cruel and degrading punishment, Amnesty International said today as it issued a new report on the continuing role of race in capital cases in the USA."

Unfortunately, for the Leftist paradigm to work one must assume that all races commit crime at exactly the same rate. Quite an assumption, really, considering that there isn't one whit of evidence to back up that claim.

[BeAllYouCanBe]

"If more blacks have committed murder than other races, then that might be why they are on death row. "

Two theories here:

One is equal opportunity. Two is equal outcome.

The liberals are looking for equal outcome -- but the outcome is skewed by black murder rates that are the last I've heard higher for black on black crime and black on white crime.

It is all just trying to look at income and trying to determine how that makes you a killer -- it doesn't -- neither does skin color.

[goldstategop]

There was an article on the murder of a black son in a South Central Los Angeles family by Julie Leovy in this past Saturday's Los Angeles Times. Its always amazing how the murderer-loving crowd repeatedly raises up the discredited canard of how black murderers are XXX times more likely to be executed than white murderers. As if the race of the killer ever made a difference to the victims: they're still dead. I'd love for liberals to explain to this family why the killer(s) of their child should be given an exemption from Death Row simply because of their skin color. My goodness, don't the lives of innocent and law-abiding people count for anything? Apparently not to that great champion of human rights, Amnesty International. It'll come as a great comfort to that family in South Central, that thanks to the bleeding-heart crowd's insistence upon political correctness in the administration of the death penalty, their loved one's murderer will never find justice in this world.

[goldstategop]

Human justice by definition, will never be perfect. There always be mistakes and that will result at times in the appearance of inequitable sentencing. If you want justice to be perfect, then no one will ever get punished for the crime in question. Amnesty International and other liberal groups aim for an impossible ideal that can never be achieved in practice. An insistence upon absolute fairness would mean letting many murderers would escape justice. Life is a series of trade-offs and realizing that justice will never be perfectly administered, is the key to improving it. If the Left has a problem with the way the death penalty is carried out in America, the answer lies in making it more equitable, not in abolishing it. Making our justice system fairer will satisfy most people but it will never be acceptable to the likes of Amnesty International for whom the American system of justice will never be good enough, no matter how sensible the balance it strikes between punishing the guilty and protecting the rights of those accused of committing a crime.

[DED]

You're right about it not being because they're black. I've pointed out to many racist acquaintances that if white people were brought up like your average inner city black, they'd ACT like them. And it's a problem that we'd better get a handle on - if I remember the figures correctly, something like 70-80% of all black kids grow up without a father in the house.

And, yes, the Democrats and the liberals have helped put them where they are. And shame on the black leadership! Jesse Jackson USED to tell "his" people to forget blaming the white man, stiffen their backbone and rise up above their problems. Now he's an extortionist, but the media treats him with kid gloves.

[Walnut]

I wasn't implying that poor people are bad. We grew up in the City poor section too. Hell we didn't have an indoor toilet yet. (everyone else did)
I guess I'm not very good at explaining what I mean. I'm refering to cases like OJs ,and there are others out there.Money does talk. With all his money OJs a bad person. your right, money (or lack of it) doesn't make you a bad person. the act of murder does.
However you have a better chance of getting off the hook so to speak if you are rich and can afford the best lawyers to defend you.
I wonder just how many people get off because they had the money to hire the best of Attorneys. thats what makes the difference.(and how many didn't get off because they didn't)
have the means to hire a great Attorney