The death penalty is racist . Defendants who are persons of color constitute an inordinately high percentage of inmates on death row. The majority of people executed since 1930 have been people of color. An inordinately high percentage of people executed for the crime of rape have been African-Americans. While the vast majority of people executed are convicted of killing white persons, approximately half of all homicide victims are African-Americans.
Executions do nothing to solve the problem of violent crime.
Each state sanctioned death only brutalizes us as us as individuals and as a society. End violence against women and children Violence against women and children is endemic in our society in the form of rape, domestic violence, sexual harassment, incest and other child abuse. A majority of women experience sexual abuse at some time in their lives. The Center for Disease Control has identified domestic violence as one of the most serious threats to the health of women today. Gender bias in the criminal court system results in drastically higher prison sentences for women who kill their partners than for men who kill their wives or girlfriends.