From Gregory Kane (black columnist) who takes a non-orthodox view of the death penalty in Maryland: http://www.sunspot.net/news/local/bal-md.kane15jan15,0,2514410.column.
An excerpt:
With an African-American annual body count that should stagger the imagination, Baltimore’s state’s attorneys — and not just Patricia Jessamy because this reluctance goes back a ways — routinely refuse to seek the death penalty. Adolf Eichmann couldn’t get the death penalty here.
Here are a couple of suggestions for future studies that won’t get done. Let’s have a study of exactly why state’s attorneys in Baltimore, where most of the black victims are, shy away from the death penalty.
Then — in the interest of investigating a real racial disparity — let’s have a treatise on why black murderers choose white victims far more frequently than white murderers choose black ones.
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Posted by razib at 01:12 PM