KCUR Compares Capital Punishment To Racist Lynching

Check Missouri "reporting" that reads more like progressive activism and doesn't really acknowledge the suffering of victims and their families . . .

The report, “Compromised Justice,” says the state has applied the death penalty with discrimination, and that it is more than seven times more likely to be used when the homicide involves a white victim versus a Black victim.

Since 1972, 52 Black defendants who were charged with killing a white person have received death sentences, while just seven white defendants got the death penalty for killing a Black victim, according to the report.

Those numbers, as well as other studies, show that “whiteness is valued over non-whiteness,” said Tiana Herring, the report’s author and a data storyteller with the Death Penalty Information Center.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Missouri's history of lynching lives on. Just look at the death penalty

In 2023, Missouri executed four people, making it one of just five states to use the death penalty - and another execution has been set for next year.