94% Of Us States Did Not Murder Us Prisoners This Year Poem by Saiom Shriver

94% Of Us States Did Not Murder Us Prisoners This Year



The death penalty
is itself a disgrace
as is the number
of the black race
whose lives
racist judges,
governors,
police and prosecutors
erase.

94% Of Us States Did Not Murder Us Prisoners This Year
Saturday, December 19, 2015
Topic(s) of this poem: death,justice
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
Six percent or six of the 50 states in the US are still committing state murder of prisoners.4 of the 6 remaining execution states have Republican governors.
They are Florida, Georgia, Oklahoma and Texas.2 with Democratic governors are Missouri and Virginia.
Racism is still a pattern in the death penalty.

http: //www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/2015-sentencing
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