Not only is sentencing inconsistent, it is often racially biased. This opening sentence has a good transition between the preceding point, the inconsistency of death penalty sentences, and the new point, the racial bias of sentencing. Blacks are sentenced to death for killing whites but rarely for killing blacks. Between 1877 and 1995, about 1,000 blacks were murdered in Kentucky, but only two of the convicted murderers, who were also black, received the death penalty. Further corroboration of point 2.
Race affects sentencing in capital cases .
These studies have shown that racism is an element in the judicial system and imply that the life of a white person is valued higher than the life of a black person. Writer repeats the topic sentence and expands upon his point. This is not justice. It's racism and discrimination. Handing out the ultimate punishment of death is irreversible, and race should have absolutely no part in the decision.