G5+Question+2

= 2) What arguments were made to justify the denial of rights? = The color of a defendant and victim's skin plays a crucial and unacceptable role in deciding who receives the death penalty in America. People of color have accounted for a disproportionate 43% of total executions since 1976 and 55% of those currently awaiting execution. A moratorium of the death penalty is necessary to address the blatant prejudice in our application of the death penalty. =Slaves were deprived rights because they were considered a species of property, such as an ox. They were objects of the law, not its subjects.=