Capital Punishment and Equal Protection: Constitutional Problems, Race and the Death Penalty

Authors

Stan Robin Gregory

First Page

257

Document Type

Comment

Abstract

This comment will (i) demonstrate that black defendants as well as black victims in death penalty cases, are not equally protected under the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution and (ii) propose a solution to provide blacks equal protection, as contemplated by the framers of the United States Constitution, when they face execution. This comment is not intended to present the argument that a death row inmate should share the same equal protection with that of law abiding citizens. Rather, this comment stands for the proposition that as a group, all death row inmates should be equally protected regardless of race.

Recommended Citation

Stan Robin Gregory, Capital Punishment and Equal Protection: Constitutional Problems, Race and the Death Penalty, 5 St. Thomas L. Rev. 257 (1992).
Available at: https://scholarship.stu.edu/stlr/vol5/iss1/15