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Anti-death penalty groups specifically argue that the death penalty is unfairly applied to African Americans. African Americans have constituted 34.5 percent of those persons executed since the death penalty's reinstatement in 1976 and 41 percent of death row inmates as of April 2018, [ 84 ] despite representing only 13 percent of the general ...
That’s too bad — people on all sides of the capital punishment debate can agree that, if it is to be used at all, the death penalty should be applied fairly and evenhandedly and in a way that ...
The 2024 presidential election leaves people opposed to the death penalty in a quandary. The American people have returned to the White House someone who wants to expand the uses of capital ...
Debate about the death penalty has been around about as long as the punishment itself. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us ...
Florida, 458 U.S. 782 (1982) – The death penalty is unconstitutional for a person who is a minor participant in a felony and does not kill, attempt to kill, or intend to kill. Tison v. Arizona , 481 U.S. 137 (1987) – Death penalty may be imposed on a felony-murder defendant who was a major participant in the underlying felony and exhibits ...
Bernard Shaw opened the debate by asking Dukakis whether he would support the death penalty if Kitty Dukakis, his wife, were raped and murdered; Dukakis answered "no" and proceeded to discuss the statistical ineffectiveness of capital punishment. Some commentators thought the question itself was unfair, in that it injected an overly emotional ...
It was the second time in four days that Gov. Andy Beshear and Republican challenger Attorney General Daniel Cameron met on the debate stage, this time in Northern Kentucky.
6 "The death penalty in arts and media" section. 2 comments. 7 Apostacy. 2 comments. 8 Debate Section. 1 comment. 9 Introduction. 1 comment. 10 Merger debate is all ...