“A death row inmate scheduled to be put to death later this month compared prison sentences to slavery in a stinging indictment of the US judicial system.

Ray Jasper, a Texas inmate, submitted his letter to media blog Gawker. Jasper was convicted for participating in the 1998 robbery and murder of recording studio owner David Alejandro and sentenced to death as a teen.

Gawker initially reached out to all death row inmates with scheduled executions this year back in December 2013. In January it published a letter Jasper wrote in response, detailing his experience on death row.”* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.

*Read more here from Daily Mail:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2573517/When-sentence-prison-sentencing-slavery-indictment-American-judicial-man-executed.html