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    Ruling elites say anything they oppose is racist, including the death penalty. Is that credible?

    The claim that the death penalty targets minorities and poor citizens is as real as the Jussie Smollett assault, and as relevant as calling the death penalty sexist because the number of men sentenced to death and executed is not the same for women.

    See also: Smoke and mirrors on race and the death penalty, by Kent Scheidegger (https://www.cjlf.org/deathpenalty/DPenaltyRace.pdf: "When the prosecuting jurisdiction is added to the model, the effect for the victim’s race diminishes substantially, and is no longer statistically significant.")

    http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/...l=1#post135556

    This fallacy is not peculiar to the death penalty and is also, among others, behind the current anti-police and anti-prison movement that caused the surge of crime during the past few years.

    In 2005, on the basis of the work of British historian Richard Evans, American author Charles Lane reported:

    Germans point proudly to Article 102 of their Basic Law, adopted in 1949. It reads, simply: "The death penalty is abolished." They often say that this 56-year-old provision shows how thoroughly the postwar Federal Republic has learned -- and applied -- the lessons of Nazi state-sponsored killing.

    But the actual history of the German death penalty ban casts this claim in a different light. Article 102 was in fact the brainchild of a right-wing politician who sympathized with convicted Nazi war criminals -- and sought to prevent their execution by British and American occupation authorities. Far from intending to repudiate the barbarism of Hitler, the author of Article 102 wanted to make a statement about the supposed excesses of Allied victors' justice.

    It was not until a meeting of a special subcommittee on Dec. 6 that a single delegate, Hans-Christoph Seebohm, surprised everyone by proposing to get rid of the death penalty. Seebohm, who ran various industrial enterprises under the Nazis, led the tiny, far-right German Party -- which also advocated using "German Reich" instead of "Federal Republic."

    After the Basic Law went into effect on May 24, 1949, Germans bombarded U.S. High Commissioner John J. McCloy with pleas for clemency based on Article 102. Among those joining what Vanderbilt University historian Thomas A. Schwartz calls "this intense and emotional campaign" were both Christian Democratic Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and Social Democratic leader Kurt Schumacher. In a Jan. 31, 1951, final report on U.S.-held war criminals, McCloy said he was not bound by the provision.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/archi...-f451ca6d1734/
    Last edited by Steven AB; 10-26-2022 at 07:20 PM.
    "If ever there were a case for a referendum, this is one on which the people should be allowed to express their own views and not irresponsible votes in the House of Commons." — Winston Churchill, on the death penalty

    The self-styled "Death Penalty Information Center" is financed by the oligarchic European Union. — The Daily Signal

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