re: Murders of whites more likely to mean death penalty in Louisiana.

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Why?

It's certainly something valid and worth digging into to figure out why killing a white person seems to net much worse sentences.

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Because most white on black killing seems to be premeditated or brutally opportunistic, with targets picked because they seemed particularly "ripe" or unlikely to fight back. This attacks the fabric of society much more than a couple of gangbangers who shoot at each other in drivebys in what is essentially gang war, thus the dead are simply casualties and their unintended targets collateral damage.



Plus, we're desensitized to it, since they kill each other so often. So it doesn't register as viscerally as when they murder an elderly couple in their home or shoot a father of 3 to death for 43 bucks and a cell phone.


Can you comprehend that?