Next, America moved to the period of legalized lynching. It is
during this time that we moved from extrajudicial execution— lynchings—to judicially enforced lynchings, also known as capital punishment. Here, courts applied what is best described as
situational reasoning. If the accused was African American and the
victim white, the jury was entitled to draw the inference, based on
race alone, that he intended to rape her. This helps to explain very troubling sentencing patterns. According to the U.S. Department of
Justice, between 1930 and 1972, 455 people were executed for rape,
and 405 of those were African American. Moreover, according to the
Wolfgang and Riedel study, African American defendants whose victims
were white were sentenced to death about 18 times more frequently
than defendants in any other racial combination of defendant and
victim. Notably, no white man has ever been executed in the U.S. for
the non-homicide rape of an African American woman or child.
Teach those animals how to behave.
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