International Submissions

This response to the Expert Mechanism’s Call for Input highlights systemic racism against Africans and people of African descent in the United States. It presents the results of research and studies regarding discrimination against African Americans 1 in the context of traffic and pedestrian stops and arrests, as well as discrimination during the pre-trial and trial phases of the criminal legal process, including in death penalty cases. It also highlights racial disparities in wrongful convictions and exonerations, and concludes with a discussion of the intersection of gender and race in the criminal legal system, sharing the results of recently published research regarding intersectional discrimination in capital cases.