The numbers are similarly biased for Latinx and Indigenous Americans, and also heavily tilted on the basis of economic class. And it isn’t just drug “crime”; it’s everything.
Almost everyone in the US prison system is imprisoned due to racism and/or classism. Including the guys who “actually did it”.
Yeah, most of these people currently facing execution probably did heinous things. But if they were White and wealthy, they wouldn’t be facing execution. They most probably would never have spent a night in a cell.
Yes, that’s how it’s intended to work.
