Death Penalty Essay
lynching and arbitrary Black Codes and Jim Crow laws, which sanctioned death for blacks for certain offenses (Love 2012). [caption id="attachment_817" align="alignnone" width="540"] Image Credit: No to War - http://www.notowar.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/death6-500x375.jpg[/caption] The discriminatory nature of the death penalty is one of the major reasons that the US Supreme Court found the way in which the death penalty was enforced in the US to be unconstitutional in Furman v. Georgia (1972): The Court reasoned that the laws resulted in a disproportionate application of the death penalty, specifically discriminating against the poor and minorities. The Court also reasoned that the existing laws terminated life in exchange for marginal contributions to society and found no evidence of any deterrent value (Death penalty, 2017). Yet while this temporarily required states… Continue Reading...