Friday 20 April 2018

Death Row Proves Something

As I have been posting a bit on US Death Row prisoners ... I thought I might do one more smaller piece on the subject.

Death Row Inmates Show Racial Bias Depending Upon State

As you can see from this image from the web, Death Row inmates represent certain races which varies slightly per state, but generally represent a similar pattern.

Ethnicity of US Prisoners on Death Row*
  • White: 1,211 (40.03%)
  • Black: 902 (29.83%)
  • Latino/Latina: 911 (30.11%)
  • Asian: 4 (0.02%)
  • Native American: 1 (0.01%)
  • Unknown: 0 (0%)
... It Doesn't Matter Which States Death Row Inmates You Look At The Figures Are Similar.

Comparatively, the ethnicity of the U.S. general population is:
  • 66.9% ~ non-Hispanic white,
  • 9% ~ Black,
  • 16.3% ~ Hispanic or Latino,
  • 4.7% ~ Oriental/Asian,
  • 0.9% ~ Native American, and
  • 2.1% ~ Mixed or other.
Interesting to note how either:
  • Comparatively violent black Americans are, or 
  • How unfair the US justice system is (depending on your point of view). 
The Oriental Asian community on the other hand is incredibly law abiding ... at least in the case of death row crimes, but no one claims that its because the justice system favours them. What this proves I really don't know. I just thought it interesting to look at the figures.

*Figures Taken from Wikipedia
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4 comments:

  1. Vroomfondel22 April 2018 at 08:31

    It certainly is interesting to look at the figures, it's the only way to make some sense of the situation.
    The first thing which came to my mind concerning the Asian statistic is that they are generally smaller and it makes sense that they wouldn't engage in a confrontation which they are likely to lose. This raises the question of whether black people are generally bigger than whites?

    From watching documentaries on serial killers I know that women tend not to engage, and when they do, they choose poison over violence presumably, at least in part, because of their smaller stature.

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    1. No PC22 April 2018 at 18:22

      Size is possibly a factor in choosing a victim, but I don't think its a factor in the criminality of groups. As discussed in a number of posts over the years there is a general propensity for more crime in some ethnic groups living as minorities.

      Race and Criminality Posts:

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      Two
      Three
      Four

      As for women, I was under the impression that 'poisoning' was a rather Victorian trait, whereas knives or scissors in the night were more the trend these days.

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    2. Anonymous26 April 2018 at 07:11

      "Many men have been stabbed in the back by a woman, but most survive" (anon).

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    3. No PC26 April 2018 at 18:54

      Been there, done that .... thanks for the comment anon.

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