It really is. We have more inmates serving life without parole than Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee combined, and the highest incarceration rate in the US, and therefore in the world. It's sickening. Black folks make up 32% of the population, but almost 75% of those serving life without parole, and there are about 1500 LWOP inmates who were convicted by a non unanimous jury. I'm hopeful the Louisiana Supreme Court will right that wrong soon.

@JonnaBononna Wow, I knew it was bad, but it’s much worse than I thought. What is the Supreme Court doing to right the wrongs there in Louisiana?

@Redheadedgammy well, SCOTUS did rule that non unanimous jury verdicts were unconstitutional, but they did not make that retroactive. The law allowing them had been in affect since reconstruction, and they were open about putting it in place to keep black jurors from affecting convictions- they wanted to be sure they could still convict black people. Two cases have gone before higher courts in Louisiana; one said they should not be overturned, the other said they should, so the state Supreme Court will have to take a case and decide definitively.

@JonnaBononna The racist bigots need to be taken down. Pretty sad that the ruling wasn’t retroactive for all those people locked up. I’m sure there are many innocent people in those prisons down there!

@Redheadedgammy there absolutely are. Prosecutors do what they want with no consequences.