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Death penalty is used as a deterrence. But it has been that it is used widely against the people of color. The color of the person and his skin plays a significant role in decision making with regard to the death penalty in America (Hanson, 2015). Studies have shown that people of color have faced more executions. That is why the death penalty has been under scrutiny for a long time for being racially biased.

In 1983, David Baldus conducted a study in which it was found that the decision of Furman v. Georgia (1972) has been applied unevenly and the execution of black people have increased. This study resulted in challenging the death sentence of Warren McCleskey where it was alleged that it was racially biased. But in this case, the court held that statistical data in relation to racial bias is not sufficient evidence to overrule someone's death sentence.

Another study was conducted by David Baldus where it was shown that blacks are more likely to be executed than whites. A main subject of his latest report is the fact that the authorization rate for death penalty is higher for white people (.38) than black people (.25) or Spaniards (.20). The statistics listed in the September 2000 article are the same. According to the new research, white suspects are handled differently than black convicted (Baldus, n.d.). This is the most current figure. A better description is provided in the September study of white defendants in which white and US whites are more likely to be murdered at the higher authorization rates for white defendants. In cases involving white-victims, prosecutor charges and the frequency of authorization for the DOJ are much higher than in cases affecting minorities. For example, statistics in the September 2000 study show that the acceptance rate of capital prosecutions for Attorney General (AG) is 16percentage points, statistical relevant at the .001 mark, at 0.37 in white-victim cases and 0.21 in minority-victim cases. In white-defendant-council cases the most coercive care is a possible alternate cause of higher authorization rates, which are even not acknowledged, and let alone dispelled, by the recent DOJ study.

A study conducted by Michael Radelet showed that the cases involving white victims are more likely to result in death sentence of the accused than those involving black victims. The new book by Radelet, History of the Death Penalty in Colorado (UPC), has just arrived in time for lawmakers to examine the 103 executions since 1859 and compile decades of other cases where people were convicted but never executed (Randall, 2020). It addresses the snobbery (as Eddie Ives), our short-term experimentation with the imposing of death by three judges, the ever-growing judicial machinery for death appeals, and what Radelet terms the 'ambivalence' of the death penalty in Colorado. James Holmes, theatre-shooter of Aurora, and the governor Johannes Holmes have taken up the jury's reluctance to enforce death

All these studies have shown that there is increasing discrimination against the black people and this is not new. We are facing this problem since ages. There are several cases where the verdict of guilty with a death sentence was pronounced merely because the victim was white or the accused was black (Dunham, 2018).

There are many federal courts who have accepted the statistical evidence in discriminatory prosecution cases. In the case of United States v. Ojala 544 F.2d 940 (8th Cir. 1976), the court accepted the allegation made by the defendant that he has been indulged for prosecution for tax delinquency when many similarly situated delinquents were not and it is a proof of 'intentional discrimination'.

In Coker v. Georgia 433 U.S. 584, 600 (1977), it was accepted by the court that the difference in the number of blacks sentenced to death penalty and the number whites sentenced to death penalty cannot be explained except on racial grounds.

Yet majority of judges still do not accept this premise that death penalty procedure is infected by racism. A systematic racial bias in the implementation of capital punishment does exist- both at state and federal levels. Addressing the issue and making stricter laws will help in curbing this problem. Right to equality and equal protection before law- these are the inherent rights which every individual possesses. Thus, no one, not even the law enforcement agencies can take away this right from them. Otherwise it will lead to miscarriage of justice and soon judiciary will lose the trust of people.

References:

Baldus, D. (n.d.). Law Library. Retrieved October 07, 2020, from https://library.law.uiowa.edu/david-c-baldus

Dunham, C. (2018, February 06). NAACP Death Penalty Fact Sheet. Retrieved from https://www.naacp.org/latest/naacp-death-penalty-fact-sheet/

Grimes, S. (2019, June 21). Race. Retrieved from https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/policy-issues/race

Hanson, K. (2015, April 20). Racial Disparities and the Law of Death: The Case for a New Hard Look at Race-Based Challenges to Capital Punishment. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8sg579fp

Randall. (2020, January 02). Michael L. Radelet, PhD - Death Penalty - ProCon.org. Retrieved from https://deathpenalty.procon.org/source-biographies/michael-l-radelet/

Stevenson. (2020). Race and the Death Penalty. Retrieved from https://www.aclu.org/other/race-and-death-penalty