*the race of the victim determines whether or not a death penalty is returned *defendants charged w killing Caucasian victims are 4.3 times as likely to be sent to death row as those charged w/killing Blacks He uses a Georgia case because it is one which caused the Supreme Court to recognize the following facts: The 20% have the perk of a much less crowded space and the capacity to see Mother Earth during their treasured time outside prison walls.Īs to the racist system that places Blacks on death row at such a startlingly high rate, he offers the following statistics and footnotes all of them like the scholar he was before being incarcerated, and continues to be behind prison walls. The other prisoners (who are also maximum security) who are not Black have a SEPARATE courtyard, which is surrounded by chain=link fencing with razor-wire, but has the view. Why? And where are the other prisoners going? They can’t see green grass or the outdoors, only four brick walls and way up there, blue sky. The vast majority of prisoners are Black, though they are a minority of the population at large, and in the Pennsylvania prison he describes, 80% of those maximum security cases, those who wear Black skin, are crowded into a courtyard. The mandatory fresh-air time, prized and treasured by men who rarely see the clear blue sky, is an Apartheid one, at least in Supermax, RHU,SMU, and SHU (ultimate maximum security prisons, which he says have swelled since jailhouse overcrowding has made prisons tenser places and more people are tossed into “the hole”). court system he also talks about racism on death row. Instead, here he uses his own situation to discuss the racism inherent both in the U.S. He has written other books I haven’t read, and I don’t know if he did that there. Live from Death Row, written before his sentence was commuted, is not, however, a vehicle he uses to advocate for himself or plead his own case to the public. The facts support his having been framed in the murder of the cop, a crime for which he was nearly executed.
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