So I'm writing an essay for college entitiled "Why there Are More Black Males on Death Row as compared to White Males" and it's just left me feeling upset. It's sad that most of these man (black) are being arrested for trying to protect their families, systematic racism, or because cases were not investigated properly. For example in the Cory Maye case http://reason.com/archives/2006/10/01/the-case-of-cory-maye/singlepage
It's a really defying case but I believe its deeper than just murder. I believe that this has to also to do with race. It's disappointing when you the people that are supposed to protect us are the ones that hurt us. I am not saying that its right to kill a person but, the way they handled the case (among other cases), how they did not bring Jamie Smith upfront as a witness, how they beat Maye up and how they fired a state attorney that represented Maye is wrong. Although Maye has since been removed from death row, It's quite daunting to think that there may be others that are on death rows whose cases have not been overlooked, others in the system who have been wrongly convicted because of what he race he is. Hopefully we will find a way to fight this.
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