Our purpose here is to defend the Movement’s call for death penalty abolition in terms congruent with its claim that the death penalty in the U.S. Results suggest that the clothing that an African American wears, as well as viewer prejudice, affects the impression that the viewer makes.ĭrawing upon empirical studies of racial discrimination dating back to the 1940’s, the Movement for Black Lives platform calls for the abolition of capital punishment. Participant’s Symbolic Racism Score significantly affected their ratings of models. Models wearing formal clothing or winning clothing were also rated significantly higher than models wearing swagger clothing on several traits. Multivariate analyses of covariance (MANCOVA) with Symbolic Racism Scale scores as a covariate revealed that participants rated models in Formal clothing significantly higher than models in winning clothing in intelligence, p <.001, trustworthiness, p <.001, and warmth p =.005. Participants (N = 143) viewed four African American models in one of three conditions. Using a between-group design, we tested whether participants perception of African American models wearing sweatpants and sweatshirts (“swagger”), clothing showing they won an event, or formal clothing, would vary. We examined the effect of different clothing styles on the perceptions of African American men. Thought should also be given to reviving and adapting mixed juries that would require equal numbers of Indigenous people and non-Indigenous people in cases involving Indigenous people. Comprehensive jury reform is still necessary, including provincial reforms with respect to jury lists, local juries and volunteer jurors. Unfortunately, however, Bill C-75 pursued only superficial reforms with respect to juror qualifications, and challenges for cause, and failed to provide for substantive equality challenges to panels of prospective jurors. It argues that Bill C-75, enacted in 2019, was justified in abolishing peremptory challenges and that this reform does not violate the Charter. This article suggests that the R v Stanley case is part of a long line of miscarriages of justice involving Indigenous people with no Indigenous representation on the jury. Gerald Stanley’s use of five peremptory challenges to exclude all visibly Indigenous people from the jury that acquitted him of murder and manslaughter in the killing of a 22-year-old Cree man, Colten Boushie, was not the only flaw in jury selection that requires reform.

Not guilty with prejudice