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With political control in what was effectively a one-party system, the South passed Jim Crow laws and instituted racial segregation in public facilities. In 1896, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the defendants in the Plessy v. Ferguson case, which established the "separate but equal" interpretation for the provision of services. Without the ...
As of January 2022, 181 black people had been executed for killing a black victim, making up 11.75 percent of all executions. [5] Robert Wayne Williams was the first black person to be executed for killing a black victim since the reinstatement of capital punishment in 1976. [12]
Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court ruling that a prosecutor's use of a peremptory challenge in a criminal case—the dismissal of jurors without stating a valid cause for doing so—may not be used to exclude jurors based solely on their race.
The way in which certain drugs are criminalized also factors into the large disparities in involvement in the prison system between black and white communities. [41] For instance "conviction for crack selling (more heavily sold and used by people of color) [results] in a sentence 100 times more severe than for selling the same amount of powder ...
Protesters hold up signs reading “Black Lives Matter” and “Justice for Robert Brooks” days after a disturbing video of the Black inmate’s fatal beating in New York
The Supreme Court dealt a blow to thousands of prison inmates by ruling against a convicted drug dealer seeking a shorter sentence under the First Step Act of 2018. The Supreme Court dealt a blow ...
On June 24, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court released its 9–0 decision ordering the 7th circuit court, which had upheld Black's conviction at trial, to review its own decision regarding the three fraud convictions against Black in light of the Supreme Court's construction of the honest services fraud statute in Skilling v. United States.
Alabama appealed to the Supreme Court, which upheld the Appeals court decision in a very brief per curiam opinion. Justices Black, Harlan, and Stewart collectively wrote a concurring opinion in which they explicitly say that "prison authorities have the right, acting in good faith and in particularized circumstances, to take into account racial tensions in maintaining security, discipline, and ...