id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_zay7jchkjfhvxgsltlfuvuszem Michael Cholbi Black Lives Matter and the Call for Death Penalty Abolition 2018 28 .pdf application/pdf 14406 808 47 Supposing, however, that such an argument can be provided, a second question arises: if US capital punishment practices represent an injustice to black communities, why is abolition the most defensible response US capital punishment regime (i.e., particular black defendants and murder victims are treated in comparatively unjust ways by that regime), they We then propose (in Sec. II) that the discriminatory patterns in capital punishment that generate this injustice are explained, in part, by implicit racial biases. But just as with the criminalization of samesex relations, blacks' awareness of how they are treated by the capital punishment regime is likely to adversely influence the attitudes and behaviors For we consider it probable that racial discrimination against blacks in the administration of the death penalty (both as prospective murder victims and as death penalty would effect.61 In keeping with the Black Lives Matter movement's understanding of the American capital punishment regime as ./cache/work_zay7jchkjfhvxgsltlfuvuszem.pdf ./txt/work_zay7jchkjfhvxgsltlfuvuszem.txt