- Source: List of white defendants executed for killing a black victim
The following is a list of white defendants executed for killing a black victim. Executions of white defendants for killing black victims are rare. Since the reinstatement of capital punishment in the United States in 1976, just 21 white people have been executed for killing a black person (less than 1.36 percent of all executions), whereas the number of black people executed for killing a white person is 299 (making up nearly 19.4 percent of all executions). Additionally, a further 12 white people have been executed for killing a black person and another person, or people, of a different race.
List of white defendants executed for killing a black victim in the United States since 1976
Indicates cases where the executed defendant killed multiple people of different races
See also
List of death row inmates in the United States
List of United States Supreme Court decisions on capital punishment
List of women executed in the United States since 1976
Race and capital punishment in the United States
Racism against Black Americans
Arthur William Hodge
Notes
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- List of white defendants executed for killing a black victim
- Lists of people executed in the United States
- Gary M. Heidnik
- Murder of James Byrd Jr.
- Roger Dale Stafford
- Robert O'Neal (murderer)
- Mark Asay
- Murder of Betty Gardner
- Daryl Holton
- Christopher Chubasco Wilkins