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This 3 page paper discusses/argues whether or not the death penalty is unconstitutional and racially biased against minorities. Examples given. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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states information, based on corrections department figures, while more whites were involved with the distribution, manufacture and consumption of illicit drugs, there were more minorities (predominantly African American) who found
themselves incarcerated. Ninety four percent of the prison growth for drug offenses during the nineties was due to drug related offenses and were predominantly African American arrests. This proves that
the justice system is not as fair, or just, as is believed. Given this, then, the argument can be extended to include the statement that the death penalty is even
worse in its applications. According to the best estimates last year, thirteen million Americans, which accounts for seven percent of the adult population, have felony records. What this translates to,
then, is a lack of voter power. Those who have served time lose their voting privileges. Greg Palasts book, The Best Democracy Money Can
Buy, indicates that, indeed, the justice system in many states is completely biased. In many of these states, additionally, the death penalty is in full force. This is a
direct reflection of criminal justice disparities so great that an astonishing one in three black adult males in the United States is either in jail, or has been.
Black crime rates have been consistently higher than the white crime rate, consistent with blacks lower socioeconomic status and related higher stress levels and weaker social
and familial structures, but there has been no massive upsurge of black criminality that could even remotely explain the skyrocketing black incarceration and felony rates.
Palasts book goes on to state that each black prisoner is worth tens of thousands of economic development dollars. This makes full prisons an viable economic product. Thus,
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