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"[African Americans] make up 12 percent of the national population [but] account for more than 40 percent of the country's current death row inmates"

"At least one in five of the African Americans executed since 1977 had been convicted by all-white juries, in cases which displayed a pattern of prosecutors dismissing prospective black jurors during jury selection."

22 percent of all executions were of African Americans for the murder of a white person yet only 1.4 percent were of whites for the reverse.

These are just some of the reasons it's going to be a long time before we see a black Ronald McDonald.

-Amnesty International, Death by discrimination
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