The unfair treatment of minorities, especially Affrican Americans, byt the courts and prison systems in the US.

The perception lingers that justice remains far from color-blind. James B. Eaglin, chairman of the National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice, was quoted as saying, There is a view in this country that if you're poor and black or Hispanic or Native American, you won't get a fair deal; and the basic contentions that there are biases at every level of the system are well founded (Simpson, 17). Awards for black victims in civil suits …

…the fail-safe it is supposed to be. The only appropriate response to human fallibility is abolition of this irrevocable punishment. The US' continuing resort to judicial killing gives the lie to its self-proclaimed status as global human rights champion, Amnesty International continued. The fact that the condemned are selected for death under a system tainted by discrimination and error compounds the country's shame and lends weight to accusations of hypocrisy leveled at its leadership (Corlew, 66).