{"id":34338,"date":"2022-08-01T02:34:50","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T02:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/?p=34338"},"modified":"2022-08-01T02:34:50","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T02:34:50","slug":"in-sc-the-death-penaltys-history-of-racism-continues-evidence-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/01\/in-sc-the-death-penaltys-history-of-racism-continues-evidence-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"In SC, the death penalty’s history of racism continues, evidence shows"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Thirty-five men sit on South Carolina\u2019s death row while the state enters civil litigation<\/a> to implement the firing squad and default to using\u00a0the electric chair \u2013 methods hardly used in\u00a0modern history \u2013 against a backdrop of growing opposition to capital punishment nationwide.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Fred Singleton, then 39, heads to trial in 1983. He\u2019s now 77.
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The death penalty has a well-known racist past. It has historically been used\u00a0disproportionately against Black men, and most often when victims are white. The number of people sentenced to death who are later exonerated continues to grow, sometimes even after the irreversible punishment<\/a> has been carried out.<\/p>\n

Further, the death penalty in South Carolina and other states is often pursued by a small number of prosecutors and driven by false narratives or a desire to appear tough on crime.<\/p>\n

Not to mention that 50 years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court decided in a landmark decision, Furman v. Georgia, that the use of the death penalty was unconstitutional, a short-lived ruling that evolved into decades of controversy and injustice.<\/p>\n

The Greenville News reviewed the cases of the 35 men on death row to find the following:<\/p>\n