According to the article on “Race and Wrongful Convictions i…

According to the article on “Race and Wrongful Convictions in the United States,” African Americans are 13% of the American population and for                 percent of the 1,900 exonerations listed in the National Registry of Exonerations as of October 2016.  

According to the article on “Race and Wrongful Convictions i…

According to the article on “Race and Wrongful Convictions in the United States,  since 1976                 percent of executions in the United States were for murders of white victims.   Innocent defendants who are charged with killing white victims are more likely to be sentenced to death than those charged with killing blacks.