1.   Blacks who kill whites are executed regularly, but only once in recent years has a white been executed for killing a black.

2.   Across the United States, the death penalty is applied disproportionately to blacks who kill whites.

3.   All of the whites were executed for killing other whites.

4.   Death penalty opponents frequently argue that capital punishment is racist, meted out disproportionately to blacks, especially blacks who kill whites.

5.   He argued about racial bias in administering the death penalty, with blacks who killed whites more likely to be sentenced to death.

6.   If a black killed a white, that was a major story.

7.   Most slayings occur within racial groups, with whites killing mostly whites and blacks killing mostly blacks.

8.   The death penalty is most used in the American South, and is disproportionately applied to those who kill whites.

9.   To many people, the likelihood of bias seems greatest in interracial killings, with blacks who kill whites more likely to receive death sentences.

10.   But until very recently, few American history textbooks even mentioned the Amistad, a story in which blacks killed whites and were exonerated.