I'm just curious, how do you get 45 years for raping someone, even three people, but you can outright kill a man in his own home that you mistook for yours and only get less than 10?
Different location.
I always thought a standardized, federal legal system woukd be much better than the divided one we got now. We got black people comparing apples to oranges. You are legit comparing Texas, a state that lynched a black man this week, to California's more favorable legal systems.
I seriously believe, the federalist model we have now existed solely to pander to Southern racists. Post reconstruction the best move for black people would have been a unitary shift that officially took legal matters outside of racist state legislatures. (Kind of like france has)