Sad World

Here. An article for you enjoyment. You need not read it to much because of this:

In case you are perhaps a bit too lazy to read the article itself, I will give you a very brief summary:
Rejon Taylor, a black man, abducted Guy Luck, a white man, from his home in Chattanooga, Tennessee (strange name, huh?). Taylor drove Lucks van with him in it, while one of Taylor’s friends held him at gunpoint and another of Taylors friends followed in his own car. I’m going to assume he did this to assure that they weren’t being followed. Taylor was being charged with burglaries and identity thefts in the area; prosecutors say that Taylor thought Luck was one of the witnesses in one of his trials and he “wanted to get rid of him.” Luck struggled against his captors, and was consequently shot four times. A jury of 5 men and 7 women, all white, convicted Taylor and sentenced him to death.
Now, this situation is interesting, because perhaps if Taylor had been white he would not have gotten the death sentence. He didn’t even pull the trigger himself, the friend who was holding up Luck did. And I can personally think of perhaps a dozen or so crimes that whites have committed that deserve the death penalty. This may seem a bit out there, but what about those guys at Enron? Their greed cost thousands of people their livelihood. They stole millions from people. Who knows how many people died because they stole money right out of the pockets of some poor family whose little Suzie was going to die if she didn’t get medical treatment or something like that? Anyway, point is that white collar crime carries harsher punishment then blue collar crime, especially if the criminal is not white. Terrible world we live in indeed.