If post-Furman death penalty statutes and Court decisions had the impacts desired by the Court’s majority in Furman
The court ruling and post-Furman death penalty statutes have not achieved the desired effects since capital punishment still follow the same trend. Importantly, racial discrimination is still evident in convicting murder and other serious offenders. Black Americans have higher chances of facing capital punishment as compared to Natives with similar offenses. Since the revival of the capital penalty in the 1970s, close to half of offenders on death row are blacks (Uniform crime report, n.p.). Evidently, the White and Black Americans exhibit equal chances of committing murder or rape. Thus, the reports on the ratio of blacks and whites ...