March 3, 2010

The Death Penalty: Racist, Classist and Unfair - TIME

Death-Row Lawyer David Dow on Capital Punishment :

I tell people that if you’re going to commit murder, you want to be white, and you want to be wealthy — so that you can hire a first-class lawyer — and you want to kill a black person. And if [you are], the odds of your being sentenced to death are basically zero.

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