Alternatively, it is those who believe in capital punishment, such as Kent Scheidegger, who is legal director of the pro-death penalty organization Criminal Justice, Legal Foundation, and blame race. discrimination against fewer prosecutors who do not wish to seek the death penalty in minority areas (“Death Penalty Discrimination”). “Prosecutors in more conservative counties use the death penalty more often,” Scheidegger said. "It produces an effect that is used more often in cases of white victims. But it is not discrimination that is political," Scheidegger said ("Death Penalty