Florida Has Never Executed A White Person For Killing A Black Person

[Jazzy]

Florida has executed 84 people since the Supreme Court announced the modern death penalty regime in 1976. Zero of them are white people sentenced to death for killing an African American. Indeed, according to the American Civil Liberties Union, “no white person has ever been executed for killing an African American” in the state of Florida.

Nor is Florida particularly unusual in the racial impact of its death penalty. In Alabama, 6 percent of murders involve black defendants and white victims, but 60 percent of black death row inmates were convicted of murdering a white person. In Louisiana, a death sentence is 97 percent more likely in murder cases where the victim is white. Nationwide, only 20 white people have been executed since 1976 for killing a black person. By contrast, 269 black defendants were executed for killing someone who is white.

As ThinkProgress’ Nicole Flatow and Adam Peck explained in January, nearly all of the people executed in 2013 were convicted of killing at least one white person. Of the 39 executions that took place last year, 32 involved a white victim — and only one white person was executed for killing a black man.

Source

When a white person kills a black person, they don't get executed. When a black person kills a white person, there is a good chance they will. This is not racist, right?

 

[Nebulous]

Sounds racist to me. Equal death opportunities for all!

 

[DrLeftover]

I would like to see the source files and original numbers before I comment.

For some reason, the article reads with a bias that can't be ignored, especially given its source, which admits they are "progressive" even though they claim to be nonpartisan.

The Center for American Progress Action Fund is an independent nonpartisan education and advocacy organization dedicated to improving the lives of Americans through ideas and action. We are creating a long-term, progressive vision for America

Center for American Progress Action Fund
http://www.americanprogressaction.org/

 

[Jazzy]

Race Issues

In the dozen years ending in 1987, approximately 53 percent of those murdered in Florida were white, and 47 percent were black. With no recent data, we can only assume that these racial breakdowns have not changed. However, as Table 3 suggests, judges and juries in Florida are very reluctant to sentence to death people who have murdered African Americans. Only 6 of the 51 people executed in Florida over the past 25 years were executed for killing blacks. African Americans are 47 percent of the homicide victims in Florida, but only 12 percent of those executed were convicted of killing blacks. Each of the six people executed for killing blacks was themselves black. No white person has ever been executed in the history of the state of Florida for killing an African American.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Sigh! Im so, so tired of the race card being a excuse for everything.

 

[Crusader]

This

Sigh! Im so, so tired of the race card being a excuse for everything.

Regardless, murder is murder. It's the same with 'hate crime' when a white man assaults/kills a black man. All assults and murders are hate crimes whether you're young, old, white, black, male, female or smurf

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

This

Sigh! Im so, so tired of the race card being a excuse for everything.

Regardless, murder is murder. It's the same with 'hate crime' when a white man assaults/kills a black man. All assults and murders are hate crimes whether you're young, old, white, black, male, female or smurf

Agreed.

 

[DrLeftover]

You forget the way "racism" has been defined in America by those who pay their rent talking about "race" on TV and in the media.

You can start with this gentleman

Smiley says he understands that President Obama is taking the "political risk" looking "tribal" if he were to look out for the concerns of his race. "What makes presidents great, makes them transformational is taking risks," Mr. Smiley says.

with video
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/09/15/tavis_smiley_to_obama_blacks_ought_to_be_looked_out_for.html


And, remember this from just the other day?

An event meant to celebrate diversity and combat racism at a Washington state community college has been cancelled after a flier emailed to guests said white people weren’t invited.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/mar/13/college-groups-diversity-event-canceled-after-excl/