All indicators show that the federal government's death penalty system is grossly unfair.
A recent U.S. Department of Justice review found that 80 percent of prisoners on federal death row are nonwhite. With this information and the new wave of support for a moratorium on executions, Clinton could have come clean and issued a federal halt on executions when he was faced with a decision on whether to okay the execution of federal prisoner Juan Raul Garza in early December. But what Clinton did do is indicative of how he plays politics with deadly serious issues. But no one should be surprised that Clinton didn't issue a moratorium. Our movement against the death penalty has made great strides, especially in the last year.