Mondaire Jones Says Death Penalty Is ‘Racist in Application’

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JONES: "Absolutely. Look, that is inevitably the case. It‘s why I have opposed the death penalty since at least freshman year of high school. It is because of the imprecision of this. There is so much inaccuracy in our criminal legal system, and we know of so many cases where people have been wrongfully convicted, have subsequently been exonerated. And we‘ve also learned that people who have been executed, who have been subsequently exonerated. I don‘t oppose a death penalty for reasons that other people do. Some people think it‘s inhumane for the government to ever execute anybody. I don‘t agree with that. I think it‘s racist in its application and it is inevitably an imprecise way of doling out punishment.”