Capital Punishment: A Look Into The Flaws Of The Death Penalty

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n from this site, Florida executed a man by the name of Willie Darden for a crime he couldn’t have committed. The conviction was based on a gun that could no way be traced to Willie. Key witnesses were not allowed to testify in the case. The person who identified Willie in a line up admitted that all blacks looked alike to her. Willie was the only black person in the line up. Supreme Court Justice Blackmun noted. “If ever a man received an unfair trial, Darden did.” Also according to this site, African-Americans make up half the death row populations in North Carolina, South Carolina, Ohio, Delaware, Mississippi, and Virginia. Over two-thirds of the people on death row in Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Louisiana. More than 3 out of four people waiting to be executed in Federal and U.S. Military prisons are African-American. And, 90% of the people U.S. Government prosecutors seek to execute are Black or Latino.
During my research through the Internet, I came across, The Clark County Prosecuting Attorney: The Death penalty (www.clarkprosecuto...