The Death Penalty
In an article by Amnesty International's Campaign on the United States of America, the author states, "More than 100 countries have abolished the death penalty in law or practice. The USA by contrast has increased its rate of executions and the number of crimes punishable by death. At this time 38 states currently have the death penalty on their statute books". The article goes on to claim, "The application of the death penalty is not only in-humane but racist. Black and white people are the victims of violent crime in roughly equal numbers, yet 82% of people executed since 1977 have been convicted of killing white victims". The following statistics would disprove this theory, however. During 1998 68 people in 18 states were executed - 20 in Texas; 13 in Virginia; 7 in South Carolina; 4 in Arizona, Florida, and Oklahoma; 3 each in Missouri and North Carolina; and 1 each in Alabama, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Montana, Nevada, and Washingt!on. Sixty-six of those executed were men and two were woman. Of those statistics; 48 were white, 18 were African American, 1 was American Indian and 1 was Asian. Of persons under sentence of
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