Should we be Killing African Americans?

The death penalty get disproportionately used against African Americans. Anyone that has looked at death penalty data knows something doesn't sit right when you look at the numbers. Below is a statistical table I put together this weekend that looks at the percentage of African Americans on death row compared to the percentage of African Americans in the state general population. The probabilities on the far right are the probabilities that the state isn't doing something racist, i.e. that that percentage of African Americans would have ended up on death row in a random sample of the population.

The States at the bottom didn't have a problem with a disproportionate number of African Americans on death row. This issue kind of strikes a chord with me as I am married to a very beautiful African American woman and made friends with an African American man on death row in Alabama. Alabama surprisingly isn't the worst state, that would be California. I gave California the benefit of the doubt and counted in all people that identify as two or more races into the population percentage of African Americans in the state and the probability that they aren't doing something racist improved from worse than 1 in over a googolplex to 6 in a billion, still nothing to write home about. The point is this is awful, 68% of the entities that have the death penalty use it in a very racist way. I can't think of anything worse than the death penalty that should factor race into the decision to apply it. The statistics are very revealing of what kind of society we are when it comes to the application of the most serious punishment that can be levied by our judicial system. Letter to Justice Jackson