Race Matters: Psychologist Told Jurors During Texas Death Row Inmate Duane Buck’s Capital Murder Case That Black People “More Violent & Dangerous” [Video]
Fear of the black man is running rampant in America’s courts.
Via Gawker reports:
In 1997, Duane Buck was convicted of shooting and killing two people, including his former girlfriend, in Houston, Texas. A jury sentenced him to death. Among the factors that influenced their decision: testimony from a psychologist who said that black people like Buck are more violent and dangerous than other people.
Above is a short clip from a new film, “A Broken Promise in Texas,” that explores Buck’s case. Although the Texas attorney general admitted more than a decade ago that the use of race-based testimony in Buck’s case was “inappropriate,” he still has not received a new sentencing hearing. A campaign led by the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund is currently underway to try to win Buck a new hearing. For now, he remains on death row. This is the pertinent exchange between the prosecutor in Buck’s case and the psychologist who’d been called to testify:
“You have determined that the sex factor, that a male is more violent than a female because that’s just the way it is, and that the race factor, black, increases the future dangerousness for various complicated reasons,” the prosecutor asked Dr. Quijano. “Is that correct?”
“Yes,” he replied.
Race Matters: Psychologist Told Jurors During Texas Death Row Inmate Duane Buck’s Capital Murder Case That Black People “More Violent & Dangerous” [Video]
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Tue, 11 Jun 2013 13:16:27 GMT
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