RACE AND EXECUTIONS
Between January 31, 2025 and June 10, 2025, twenty-one executions were carried out in the United States.
Three more executions are scheduled before the end of this month.
All of the victims involved in these 21 cases, with one exception, were white females or white males. The lone exception was a single black female.
Of the five scheduled June executions, all involve white female victims.
So what do these non-fake statistics tell us?
The death penalty in America is almost exclusively a white murder victim penalty, and more so in cases involving white females than white males.
Since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976, only 21 white people have been executed for killing a black person. That means just 1.4 percent of all the 1,625 executions carried out during that period involved white-on-black victims.
Compare that to the 299 black people executed for killing a white person during the same time frame—representing 19.4 percent of all 1,625 executions.
I’m not a rocket scientist but I did get a GED. I can spell “cat” without being spotted the “c” and “t.”
Unlike the president of the United States, these statistics do not lie. They tell us that in the death penalty arena white lives are more valuable than black lives or the lives of any other people of color.
And the president has called upon the states, and the red states have responded accordingly, to ramp up these kinds of executions—kill as many people on death row who were convicted of killing a white person, especially if the offender is black.
Think about it a moment—all five executions scheduled for this month involve white female victims
In 2022, the last year with reliable data, 1,918 black women were murdered in the U.S. while 1,543 white women were murdered.
Without any data to rely upon, I would venture a GED-educated guess that not a single offender was prosecuted for capital murder for killing any of the black females while dozens were prosecuted for killing white women.
Now if all this doesn’t establish systemic racism in the death penalty arena, I’m going back up in the trees to join my ancestors where a GED is a non-essential life need.