Walsh argues that the macrostructural opportunity model helps explain why black murderers almost always choose black victims.

In 1988 the Bush campaign broadcast an attack ad about a black murderer to inflame voters crudely and unfairly against Michael Dukakis.

And him a black hearted murderer at the time.

At 11:30 the three black murderers were led out onto the shiny white courthouse porch.

"But just because I didn't know about ghostbears and black murderers last week doesn't mean they weren't out there."

Yet in the death penalty states of post-Gregg America, black murderers have actually been somewhat less likely to wind up on death row than their white counterparts.

Only California, Utah and Nevada came close to sentencing black murderers to death in proportion to their share of the total.

The evidence of a similar bias towards the death penalty for black rather than white murderers is less good, but still quite persuasive.

The defense introduced a statistical analysis of 2,000 Georgia murder cases showing that prosecutors were far more likely to seek the death penalty for black murderers than whites.

Willie Horton was the black murderer who raped a white woman while on furlough from a Massachusetts prison.