Black death row inmates suffer botched executions at twice rate of whites in US

A glaring racial disparity is evident in the 73 botched procedures involving lethal injections since 1976, report by Reprieve finds

Black incarcerated people have been subjected to prolonged and painful botched executions in America at more than twice the rate of white death row inmates, a new study has found.

While glaring racial disparities have long been visible in US capital punishment, the report from the international human rights group Reprieve finds that the inequities exist even inside the death chamber. It reveals a shocking racial disparity in the rate of botched executions in which lethal injections went awry, both nationwide and in individual death penalty states.