While blacks executed, whites more likely to walk free in killings of black men

[GMDino]

Quote:Since the 1970s, when the death penalty was reinstated, there have been 92 executions in Florida. Of those, nearly 20 were black men executed for killing a white victim. But until Aug. 24, the state had never, in modern history, employed the death penalty in the other direction — executing a non-Latino white male for killing a black victim. 


The high-profile cases that have involved the death of blacks nationwide are all too familiar. And so are the names of the non-convicted: George Zimmerman, Betty Shelby, Darren Wilson.

A recent report by the Marshall Project in collaboration with The Upshot, provides hard evidence of what many have already suspected: Killings of black men by whites are far more likely to be ruled “justifiable.” This is a creative way for the system to say, “Yes, you killed someone, but we're going to allow you to continue living your life even though an innocent black man is dead.”