Injustice in the Justice system

PEER: on eof equal rank; one among equals. I knew the deintion of that word, and there was nothing remotely akin to this meaning existing between me and these seven hard-eyed White Men and five cold- eyed White Woman who made up this jury of my “peers”.

This is how Delbert Tibbs described how is court case went
when he was sentenced to death in a Florida
jail. After 12 years he reversed his court sentenced and was found innocent.
In” Life from Death Row” Mumia Abu-Jamal describes the inhumanities
of being on death row and the injustices in a judicial system. The first one he
speaks about is non contact visits. The inmates are not allowed to tough their visitors
at all. This he suggest make the inmate “dead” before they are
executed by the state that sentenced them. Cutting of the necessary physical
interaction with family, friends and other social relationships causes those
relationships to crumble. The most important thing to a human heart is the
interaction between loved ones and relationships with other people. Once this
is all gone the heart dies and it’s like an empty shell is walking around just
waiting to be put to death. The second issue he really touched on was the
unequal statistics around death row. The fact that someone is more likely to be
sentenced to death for killing a Caucasian than they are for killing an
African- American baffles me. They’re deaths are overlooked but as soon as
there is a hint of killed they are charged immediately. As the quote at the beginning
suggests maybe if the group determining these peoples futures where actually
equal to them the rulings would be completely different. I really enjoyed this article
and found some of the statistics astonishing.

Add comment September 14, 2006