On one issue, Texas culture and tradition had influence the views of Texas judges on the death penalty. In fact, judges would often implement decisions and punishments based on a justice system that discriminated against certain races rather than a justice system based on evidence and reason to convict criminals. Racial bias is the opinionated view that a society has uses to assigns certain positive or negative traits to a race so that one can categorize them as either lower or higher in society. These stereotypical beliefs were set up during the time of the European enlightenment where philosophers had categorized races to use them has slaves and servants so that Europeans may maintain control for economic and social reasons like labor or
