Posted on 12/03/2005 1:37:16 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
...again, anti-death penalty activists have yanked out their ever-handy race card.
...............Federal statistics on nationwide homicide trends from 1976 to 2002 reveal that over 59 percent of those arrested for felony murder are black. Fifty-five percent of victims of felony murder are white.
In homicides where the perpetrator doesn't know his victim, the black assailant-white victim murder happens four times more often than the white-on-black murder. A death row comprising of a majority of black convicts who were sentenced for killing white victims might be more a reflection of that data than of any "racial disparity."
The "racial disparity" on Maryland's death row is no more a disparity than the number of black guys any football fan can see on the defensive units of many NFL teams. Get a lot of black guys interested in playing pro football, and you'll have a league dominated by black players. Get too many black guys committing felony murder, and you'll have death rows dominated by black convicts. But in the liberal mind-set of death penalty opponents, one is a racial disparity while the other is the way things are.
...liberals need victims. But not just any victims. Murder victims like a Jane Tyson or a Nathaniel Gulliver won't do for the criminal-loving wing of liberal America. They need victims who aren't really victims in any normal meaning of the word.
That's why liberals have recently gone on a crusade to restore felons' voting rights, proclaiming disenfranchised felons as America's new crop of victims. The fact that most felons got in their situation all on their own and that most states provide a means for them to have their voting rights restored by acting on their own doesn't deter liberals, who are in constant need of non-victims to shove down the victimhood maw.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
The fact that felons are projected to vote almost exclusively democrat is another reason for the crusade.
It's also why felon's aren't afraid to go to prison anymore. Liberal's have turned them into health spa-resorts, free dental and health care, a balanced diet, free cable.
Blacks make up approx. 17 percent of the U.S. population and are responsible for 59 percent of murders committed?
If those stats don't wake you up to disparities I don't know what will.
The fact is also almost all of them are drug users... so much for the argument drugs have no effect on crime rates...
Ya right. Both him and Tookie are victims.
Actually its less than 13% of the population.
Can you say "hate crime"? But wait, Hate Crimes are a PC phenom.....and when a black kills a white, no hate is involved. It must be a "love crime."
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