Ku Klux Klan Leader Jailed for life

[Sirius]

One less racist to worry about

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Wor..._Cynthia_Lynch

lets hope some big black negros make friends with him in the showers

As opposed to big white ones?

Originally Posted by foreverwar

As opposed to big white ones?

lol realised what i wrote

[Niles Crane]

Cynthia Lynch? Appropriate.

Sirius, are you referring to the murdered recruit or the murderer?

[Flyboy]

Hmm....one would have expected the death penalty. I wonder why he was not sentenced to death? If this had been a Black man killing a white woman, would he have been executed?

[Xaccers]

Not really, Louisiana only has 84 inmates on death row, and the number of actual executions are quite low.
Now, unless you believe the state has only had 84 murders...

[Flyboy]

But fifty-four of them are Black. I would hazard a guess (although I have no knowledge of this) that this is not proportional to the racial ratio of murderers in the state.

[Xaccers]

Well, find out what their crimes were to warrant the DP, and compare it to the crimes comitted by the rest of the lifers.

Louisiana has a high ex-slave population, which tends to be at the lower end of the social scale, leading to high involvement with hard drugs and gangs, therefore multiple murders rather than just a single kill.

Which of the following are you suggesting?

1. There are more blacks on DR because the Louisiana judicial system is racist.
2. There are more blacks on DR because more blacks are exposed to situations resulting in justified DR sentences.
3. Blacks shouldn't be put on DR.

[broadbandking]

Originally Posted by Flyboy

Hmm....one would have expected the death penalty. I wonder why he was not sentenced to death? If this had been a Black man killing a white woman, would he have been executed?

Thats a comment which is alittle far fetched to me, as your saying as a white man he gets better treatment than black, which is not the case.

[Flyboy]

Originally Posted by broadbandking

Thats a comment which is alittle far fetched to me, as your saying as a white man he gets better treatment than black, which is not the case.

Are you saying that there is no racism in the US justice system?

[papa smurf]

Originally Posted by Flyboy

Are you saying that there is no racism in the US justice system?

are you suggesting there is ?

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by Niles Crane

Cynthia Lynch? Appropriate.

Sirius, are you referring to the murdered recruit or the murderer?

The Ku klux klan leader

Originally Posted by broadbandking

Thats a comment which is alittle far fetched to me, as your saying as a white man he gets better treatment than black, which is not the case.

i actually find myself agreeing with Flyboy on this (pause to take tablets) given that it was in Luisiana and given the past ,shall we say "errors in the justice system" between blacks and whites in the deep south ,i think the sentance should have been death and it probably would have been anywhere else ,maybe the apology to the family helped

[TheDaddy]

Originally Posted by broadbandking

Thats a comment which is alittle far fetched to me, as your saying as a white man he gets better treatment than black, which is not the case.

That's exactly what the case is

Furthermore, as of October 2002, 12 people have been executed where the defendant was white and the murder victim black, compared with 178 black defendants executed for murders with white victims.

The results of their study proved that the odds of receiving the death penalty in Philadelphia increased by 38% when the accused was black.

University of Iowa law professor David Baldus found that during the 1980s prosecutors in Georgia sought the death penalty for 70 % of black defendants with white victims, but for only 15% of white defendants with black victims.

http://www.aclu.org/capital-punishme...-death-penalty

http://lagriffedulion.f2s.com/DP.htm