Aura Bogado of Colorlines reviews the dramatic racial disparity among the 35 death penalty executions that took place in Texas, Missouri, Florida, Oklahoma, Georgia, Ohio, and Arizona last year:
Breakdown of 2014 US death penalty executions by race, population by race, and race of victims whose killing resulted in an execution. (Colorlines/Equal Justice USA/DOJ/Census Bureau/Death Penalty Information Center)
If these numbers aren't startling enough, the third pie chart (above) shows the racial breakdown of the victims whose convicted killers were executed. In 2014, 69 percent of victims in cases resulting in the death penalty were white. Check out the entire breakdown here.