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Abolitionist Legacy

By Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing

Dianne Rust-Tierney, Executive Director of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty had an excellent article published in The Huffington Post titled "We, Too, Are Abolitionists: Black History Month, Slavery, and the Death Penalty."Read it by CLICKING HERE.Highlights include:"If a slave killed his master or another white person, or raped a white woman, the penalty was automatic death. If a white person killed or raped a slave, the punishment might be imprisonment or a fine. Most crimes by whites against slaves went unpunished. The laws carried the clear, if unstated, message, that some lives are worth more than others. This is still true today, as there are more people of color sentenced to death whose victims were white than the reverse...continue to full post

Full post as published by tcask:: on the road (to abolition) on February 25, 2009 (boomark / email).