You turn to us for voices you won't hear anywhere else.

Sign up for Democracy Now!'s Daily Digest to get our latest headlines and stories delivered to your inbox every day.

Amnesty International: Capital Punishment in U.S. Turns on Race

HeadlineMay 18, 1999

Amnesty International says the use of capital punishment in the United States turns on the issue of race, leaving black defendants condemned to die more frequently than whites and causing white victims to be avenged more severely than blacks. In a new report being released at a conference in Ghana today, the international human rights group, a longtime advocate of abolishing capital punishment, asserts that minorities face bias “at every step of the judicial process in the United States.”

The original content of this program is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Please attribute legal copies of this work to democracynow.org. Some of the work(s) that this program incorporates, however, may be separately licensed. For further information or additional permissions, contact us.

Non-commercial news needs your support

We rely on contributions from our viewers and listeners to do our work.
Please do your part today.
Make a donation
Top