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Report: Death penalty cases show history of racial disparity

by Associated Press
| September 14, 2020 9:30 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Black people have been overrepresented on death rows across the United States and killers of Black people are less likely to face the death penalty than people who kill white people, a new report found.

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