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Victim, even though black people have disproportionately the victim of crime. the modern practice of capital punishment grew out of lawless lynching under jump crow. professor koch described the practice in north carolina as, quote, another tool of the mob aimed at terrorizing black communities and making a show of protecting white people from their black neighbors. that racist history lives through capital punishment to this day. of the 11 former confederate states, only virginia abolished the death penalty. it did so only this year. studies consistently show that the death penalty does not deter crime. that it is more expensive than even life in prison. and that it is applied unjustly across racial lines. ....