Annie
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Ok. We agree to disagree. While rare, won't be the first time.As much as I agree with you, I do not see this happening.
J. Christian Adams will simply be portrayed as a disgruntled employee of the justice department and in a few days his fifteen minutes of fame will be over and Holder and the DOJ will go back to ignoring the law. No harm, no foul will be the attitude of the Administration.
Laws are not applied fairly and never have been. How many people sit on death row today? How many of those are black?
I'm not going to spend much time trying to match the years of these next two sites, but check out the census population of death row and compare it to the current US Population then tell me our laws are applied fairly.
Race of Death Row Inmates Executed Since 1976 | Death Penalty Information Center
Population of the United States by Race and Hispanic/Latino Origin, Census 2000 and July 1, 2005 — Infoplease.com
I don't think I will buy the "fairness" argument.
Immie
Immie, I recognize why you are saying what you are, it's fair to a point. Yes, more blacks commit crimes and more get harsher punishments than white convicted of same type of offenses, especially regarding the death penalty.
Race may well be a factor, I'd not rule it out. OTOH I'd argue that it's much more a socioeconomic factor-both crime and punishment, than race. Crime is tied to both poverty and chaotic homelife, the later being a function of the former in many cases.
High income, violent offenders tend to be white and have access to top attorneys, yet chaotic homelife is still a signpost, if not so obvious one. Anomie may be a factor in sociopathy, whether caused by non-binding with greater society or a result of narcissism from parenting or the lack thereof. Whether from poverty or neglect of parenting anomie may well come into play with concurring sociopathy.
However, my point was... oh hell, let me just put it this way, justice is not blind and it is most definitely not colorblind.
I really do not like the idea of the DOJ doing what it is apparent that they have done, but there are ramifications for pushing this case forward.
Immie