Dead Man Walking: How the Death Penalty is totally Biased

My position on the death penalty is that it is all told unfair and an unjust system. Throughout the whole novel we learn how the death penalty was strictly implement more in the south than in any other part of the nation. The worst part of this was that it was most rigorously used against hoi polloi who killed white people. The death penalty was a system that was racial and in addition socioeconomic biased, making it totally unfair and one-sided.In a state that had the highest misery stats in the nation, it was somewhat expensive to afford a well-prepared lawyer. By not having a well-prepared lawyer you had to rely on universal defenders which usually had many clients to defend that made it impossible to interview inmates before trials, much less do time-consuming investigations that capital cases required thus the reason why ninety-nine percent of death-row inmates were poor. The government had essentially created two types of separate, unjust legal systems one for the rich, in which everything was put into consideration, every opinion was heard, and where you could buy your exemption and one for the rich, in which hasty guilty pleas and brief hearings are the rule and appeals are the exceptions.Read this The Secrets of Haitis Living DeadRacism was a very big part of this penal system. As some(prenominal) Prejean and Farmer pointed out in the novel, the death penalty biased people who committed murders against white people and that in the south nine times out of ten when the death penalty is sought its because the victim is white. Around seventy-five percent of death-row inmates were there for killing whites. Even the Supreme court of justice acknowledged, in McCleskey vs. Kemp (1987), that there exists racial bias in capital sentencing and that killers of whites are more likely to start out the death penalty than killers of blacks. These are the type of things that made this system prejudice towards blacks, not only that however it also demoralized their life.Throughout the novel Prejean strives to do the opposite of what society is doing to these men, which is humanize them. The humanization of two Willie and Sonnier actually made my stance against the death penalty a lot stronger. It just shows that not everyone is holy and no matter how big or small everyone will have flaws. I do barrack with punishment but it doesnt give the government the right to choose whether you live or die.