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“His death was not motivated by racism!” Yes it was, and here’s a thread on how and why, with a bit of extra info!
We know black people make up 13% of the population, but they make up 42% of those on death row, compared to 54% of white people on death row. Meanwhile, 35% of those black people on death row get executed. Black people are more likely to be arrested, killed and/or executed for—
—a crime. For example, marijuana usage arrest rates; African Americans are arrested at a rate 3.7 times higher than white people.
As of 2019, 2.6 million black people were arrested and 7 million white people were arrested, thats a 1:2 ratio. The ratio of black to white person is normally 7.6:1. If it was equal by population of each race, only 910,000 black people should have been arrested.
If the murderer is black and kills a white person, they have a higher chance of being executed. “...[Ever since] October 2002, 12 people have been executed where the defendant was white and the murder victim black, compared with 178 black defendants executed for murders with—
—white victims.” (via. https://www.aclu.org/other/race-and-death-penalty). Bernard was convicted of participating in the murder of 2 white folks in Texas, going off of statistics, this added onto his punishment.
Does place in the United States also affect the chances of a death penalty? Absolutely. Bernard was accompanying a murder in Texas, the South is notorious for its racism, and statistically the South is harsher with giving out death penalties to black people.
sources
- https://www.naacp.org/latest/naacp-death-penalty-fact-sheet/
- https://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/crime/ucr.asp?table_in=2
- https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/un-report-on-racial-disparities/
(I am missing one but I can’t seem to find it again)
- https://www.naacp.org/latest/naacp-death-penalty-fact-sheet/
- https://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/crime/ucr.asp?table_in=2
- https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/un-report-on-racial-disparities/
(I am missing one but I can’t seem to find it again)
Now let’s talk about other people who murdered, but gained different sentences.
Patrick Baxter, a murderer who killed from 1987 to 1990, he murdered 3 people: a girl and two women, in the state of New York. He didn’t receive a death sentence, just a life in prison.
Hadden Clark. A white murderer who killed a young girl and woman in 1986 and 1992, he’s confessed to killing many more but it is not yet proven. He never received a death sentence either, just 70 years in prison.
Adam Leroy Lane, also known as the Highway Killer, killed 2 people and attempted killing a third in 2007 and was only sentenced to life imprisonment.
End of thread. Fuck the death penalty and Fuck the system!
If I messed up anything or should add some more info tell me, I’ll add it and fix it
Look at this too! (Sorry for the second notif op, i attached it to the wrong tweet 
) https://twitter.com/thechildofmagic/status/1337545685730816009?s=21 https://twitter.com/thechildofmagic/status/1337545685730816009
) https://twitter.com/thechildofmagic/status/1337545685730816009?s=21 https://twitter.com/thechildofmagic/status/1337545685730816009
