Death penalty Race and class

 In deadline, David Keaton was sentenced to death in Florida. Seven years later, he was proven innocent of the crime and was released from death row. His brother stated “Growing up black in this state, you know, you really didn’t have a chance when it came to a crime. You know, they say that justice is blind, but justice really isn’t blind.” I would agree to this statement because black people really do have a harder time because unfortunately racism still exists in this world. Justice is not blind and it is proven because there have been more black people convicted to death than white people. Growing up black must have been hard due to racism and knowing that they are being treated differently must have been hard. Race plays a role in capitol case because the color of your skin can play a role in what the sentence is. More than 80% of the people who have been executed, have been for the murder of white people. I believe that the conviction was because of the race. White people are treated better in court cases and other people are treated worse. This is shown because when white people are killed it is treated as a higher crime and sentence more people to death. People of color and low-income, are more likely to receive the death penalty. I believe that this is because they are seen as lesser people. Courts may see people of color and treat them differently and worse than they would white people, and low income people the court may see as not as high contributors to society and treat them differently than they would high income people. Vesiges of legal segregation and historic race-based policies impact the modern U.S. justice system because they treat people of color differently and may be more ready to convict them to death even if they haven’t committed the crime. Some steps that could be taken to ensure a fairer justice system could be making more black judges and that may eliminate some racism towards ethic people and create more fair trials that will give them a fair chance to get out of the death penalty. However the justice system is not perfect and people who are innocent will continue to be convicted until it is.