Supreme Court Denies Racism

       The article, "Death Penalty, Still Racist and Arbitrary", written by David R. Dow, published in The New York Times,  argues that the Supreme Court of the United States of America makes decisions that are racist in regards to the death penalty. The Supreme Court should serve as a balance to the executive and legislative branches of the government, however, on this matter they seem to have lost their objectivity.
      Mr. Dow explains a study done in the University of Iowa in 1976 that showed if a white person murders a white person, then they most likely only recieve a penalty of jail time. If they happen to murder a black person, they might get a few years. If a black person kills a black person, then they have a higher chance of receiving the death penalty. Astonishingly, if a black person has the blood of  a white person on their hands, they are 4.3 times more likely to be slapped with the death penalty. The Supreme Court has been presented with these statistics and refused to step in to fix this injustice.  The Court had made a rule that there has to be hard evidence of racism involved for them to accept an appeal. David Dow says this never happens except for the time in Texas where Chuck Rosenthal, a distric attorney in Harris County, resigned when they caught him with racist emails. Actually, he said the study had been repeated and found the same results in many states.
       The author is writing for readers of The New York Times. That would include urban, white, educated, and rich individuals, most like those who mainly vote.  Credibility is seen at the end of the article which states the writer is a professor at the University of Houston Law Center. On the other hand I wonder if the author is black himself.
     This argument makes sense to me. I have also noticed myself when I watch current events, most of the criminals who are put to death by the death penalty are black people. I didn't know the Supreme Court let that happen when there is supposed to be rights in the Constitution to protect all people.