Reprieve, a non-profit organization, analyzed the more than 1,400 lethal injections carried out in the United States since 1977, and in their analysis discovered that botched executions are racially biased. According to the study, the research shows that the disparities present in the criminal justice system extend to the execution of incarcerated people.

As NPR reported, the pattern is worse in Southern states. In Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Georgia, 75% of botched executions involved Black people, even though Black people only accounted for 33% of executions in those states. Somewhat complicating things, there is no set standard for what makes an execution a botched execution. Reprieve designated executions that featured expressions of pain, an incarcerated person being conscious after a drug (or drugs in some cases) were administered, and whether execution workers struggled to find a person’s veins to administer the drugs as botched executions.

The analysis also found that it did not matter which drugs were used in a cocktail; the result, as far as a botched execution is concerned, remained the same. Reprieve’s Executive Director, Maya Foa, told NPR that tinkering with the formulas is not addressing the problem.

“There are botched executions, many of them, regardless of the drug, regardless of the cocktail. Continuing to tinker with the machinery of death is not making this better,” Foa said. “The analysis shows not only are we botching these executions and causing people torture more often than with many other methods.”

Source: Study Reveals Racial Disparities And Botched Executions Of Black People, Sparking Calls For Lethal Injection Moratorium

Candace Owens is back to her old antics.

During a recent appearance on the Dr. Phil show, the right-wing conservative analyst and Daily Wire host blasted affirmative action policies, calling them “harmful and degrading.” Sharing the floor with fellow panelists including conservative author and TV host Danielle D’Souza Gill, Owens claimed to have “actual facts” that such policies resulted in nothing more than a “burden of responsibility” for the left, and often did more harm than good.

“When you artificially place a black American into a school in which they do not belong based on their knowledge, it doesn’t mean that they go on to get A’s,” Owens said. “In fact, there was a black adjunct professor, you guys have definitely heard of him, Dr. Thomas Sowell, who was teaching at Cornell University and he found that the majority of the black American students that were there were on academic probation.”https://www.youtube.com/embed/jsmp1zNyJIA

The 33-year-old jumped on advocates that support such initiatives, claiming they often bring harm to the same people the policies tend to help. “In the end, you either know the answers or you don’t,” she said.

The discussion surrounding affirmative action has carried on for years now, even making it to the Supreme Court, upholding the use of race in admissions at the University of Texas. BLACK ENTERPRISE reported in 2022 that 60% of Americans supported a ban on the consideration of race in college admissions. However, Black Americans were the only demographic not looking to support the ban on race in college admissions.

Source: Candace Owens Claims Affirmative Action Policies Are Harmful and Degrading