"Racial Disparities in Botched Executions Revealed in New Study"
Originally Published 1 year ago — by NPR
A new report by the nonprofit Reprieve found that states made significantly more mistakes during the executions of Black people than they did with prisoners of other races, with half of the botched lethal injection executions being of Black people, despite them accounting for only a third of the prisoners executed. The study suggests that racism extends even to the final step of the death penalty, and experts believe that systemic racial discrimination and biases in healthcare may contribute to the disparities in the administration of lethal injections. The authors of the report recommend imposing a moratorium on lethal injection executions and commissioning investigations to better understand the issues.