Response: Deadline

Race plays a huge role in capital cases. States and the law will claim that they are not racist, but in reality if there was some evidence against a black man, they will try their hardest to prove the black man guilty then if there were evidence against a white man. It seemed like most of the men who were later proven innocent after being sent to prison were black man. Especially in the walk for the wrongfully accused. In that walk most of the men we saw in the movie were black men. I believe that whether people want to admit it or not, there are still discriminations against race that should not be there. Black people are always being accused or questioned and it seems as though they are always the first person to be accused. This is a problem because it lets white people commit and get away with crimes. Lawyers and detectives seem to spend way too much time trying to convict an innocent black man then a guilty white man. Im not saying that all black man are innocent, some of them do commit crimes, just like some white people commit crimes also. All I am saying is that if black and white people were treated fairly, I believe that less innocent people would be in jail or be on death row. Based on the quote, “Growing up black in this state, you know, you really didn’t have a chance when it came to a crime. You know, they say that justice is blind, but justice really isn’t blind,” from the movie Deadline, it seems as though black men have to watch there back all the time. They have to make sure they arent wrongfully accused just because they are in the wrong place at the wrong time. Where a white man can just leave that situation and not have any problem. When blacks came to America they came as slaves. When white people came to America they came to get away from the troubles in the pther countries and to start a new life in America. Black people came as slaves and for the most part, they have yet to shake off that segragation and discrimination. Thats why they are inclined to be suspects of crimes because whites think they do everything wrong, and that all started from how they came to America.

I believe the death penalty is widely supported in this country because most people believe in, "an eye for an eye". The media always portrays the guilty as the worst possible person and it makes people believe that person should be sent to death. People also believe that everyone deserves revenge. If someone commited a crime they should get it right back. But does that really fix the problem? Or would that kill more people? Maybe it sounds good but is the answer just to kill more people, would that prevent more deaths. wouldnt it be more effective to let that person suffer in jail for the rest of their lives?