A staggering racial disparity occurs when cases get to the sentencing phase. If you are Black in this country, you have a higher chance of being sentenced to death. To put a fine point on it, Black people make up 13% of the U.S. population, but there are over 41% of them on death row. So that’s one reason anyone who loves justice and fairness should be against the death penalty, but there is another. One that Angela Davis pointed out in her book Are Prisons Obsolete?
