Race emerges as a death penalty issue

Tony Rizzo, Kansas City Star

Across the nation, death chambers sit idle while the U.S. Supreme Court mulls the viability of lethal injection.

But it’s another less-publicized death penalty issue that in the long run may prove to have a much larger impact on who dies and who decides if they should.

The issue is race. Earlier this month, the Supreme Court heard arguments in the appeal of a black man from Louisiana convicted by an all-white jury. In his case, the prosecutor admonished jurors to not let the defendant get away with murder like O.J. Simpson.

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