Title: 8 Facts You Should Know About Racial Injustice in the Criminal Legal System
Headings: 8 Facts You Should Know About Racial Injustice in the Criminal Legal System
8 Facts You Should Know About Racial Injustice in the Criminal Legal System
Racial discrimination has been ingrained in the criminal legal system from its earliest days and persists today.
1. More than half of death row exonerees are Black.
2. Nearly half the people currently on death row are Black
3. Half of the 2,725 people exonerated since 1989 are Black.
4. Innocent Black people are seven times more likely to be wrongfully convicted of murder than innocent white people.
5. It takes longer to exonerate an innocent Black person.
6. Police misconduct occurred in more than half of all wrongful murder conviction cases involving innocent Black people.
7. About one-third of unarmed people killed by police are Black.
8. Black people are more likely to be stopped and searched.
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Content: Innocent Black people are seven times more likely to be wrongfully convicted of murder than innocent white people. In particular, Black people are more likely to be wrongly convicted of murder when the victim is white. Among Black people exonerated from murder convictions, approximately 31% were wrongly convicted of killing white people, though just 15% of homicides by Black people involved white victims, the National Registry of Exonerations reported. 5. It takes longer to exonerate an innocent Black person. Innocent Black people spend an average of 13.8 years wrongly imprisoned before being exonerated — about 45% longer than innocent white people. This racial disparity in time spent wrongfully incarcerated holds true across different types of convictions. Black people tend to receive harsher sentences when accused of sexual assault, and have a harder time being exonerated from a wrongful conviction. On average, they spend 4.5 more years in prison than their white counterparts before being exonerated. Black people wrongly convicted of murder spend an average of three more years in prison than white people — four if they are on death row.