Blacks and capital punishment

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In the past twenty years strict controls have been implemented but the system still has symptoms of racial bias This racial bias was first recognized by the Supreme Court in Fruman vGeorgia, 408 U.S 238 (1972) The Supreme Court Justices decide that the death penalty was being handed out unfairly and according to Gest (1996) the Supreme Court felt the death penalty was being imposed "freakishly" and "wantonly" and "most often on blacks" Several years later in Gregg vGeorgia, 428 U.S