Black people are more than seven times more likely to be wrongfully convicted of murder than White people.

That’s according to a recent report by the National Registry of Exonerations. 

The Registry also found a pattern of harsher sentences for Blacks convicted of murdering White victims, and lighter sentences when the victims are Black.

CGTN’s Dan Williams reports.

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