Black death row inmates suffer more botched lethal injections than white ones: Report [Video]

(The Hill) — A new report says that Black inmates sentenced to death by lethal injection suffered a botched procedure at higher rates than white prisoners. 

In the analysis released this month, researchers at the anti-death penalty group Reprieve found that Black people had a 220 percent greater chance of suffering a botched lethal injection execution than white people, regardless of whether a one-drug or a three-drug protocol was used. 

“It is well-established that the death penalty is infected with racial bias at every stage of the process,” the report states. “This report reveals that the racial disparities in capital punishment extend all the way into the execution chamber.”

In 1972, the Supreme Court ruled the death penalty in three cases was unconstitutional, and as a result halted executions until clarifying the ruling in 1976. Since then, at least 1,582 individuals have been executed. 

Lethal injection was first introduced as a legal …