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  2. Opinion: It's now clear that America's death penalty is dying ...

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    A view of death row at California's San Quentin prison in March. Capital punishment has continued to become rarer in recent years, and public opinion of the practice keeps growing dimmer with time.

  3. Democrats Scrub Death Penalty Opposition From Campaign ... - AOL

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    For the first time in more than a decade, the Democratic Party platform includes no mention of abolishing the death penalty.

  4. Opinion - What does Donald Trump’s return mean for the death ...

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    In America’s death penalty system, violations of due process and equal protection occur almost daily. Examples include the well-publicized cases of people like Marcellus Williams , Richard ...

  5. Capital punishment in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Vermont has abolished the death penalty for all crimes, but has an invalid death penalty statue for treason. [93] When it abolished the death penalty in 2019, New Hampshire explicitly did not commute the death sentence of the sole person remaining on the state's death row, Michael K. Addison. [94] [95]

  6. Capital punishment debate in the United States - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  7. Political positions of the Democratic Party (United States)

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    The Democratic Party currently opposes the death penalty, [58] but previously supported it. [59] The 2012 Democratic Party platform endorsed the death penalty , but believed it must not be arbitrary, DNA testing should be used in all appropriate circumstances, defendants should have effective assistance of counsel, and the administration of ...

  8. Executions in the US are in decline – but some jurisdictions ...

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    Since reaching historic highs in the late 1990s and early 2000s, use of the death penalty in America has steadily declined, with a dwindling number of jurisdictions responsible for a growing ...

  9. Political positions of Jimmy Carter - Wikipedia

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    In a March 29, 2012, interview with Laura Ingraham, Carter expressed his wish to see the Democratic Party becoming more anti-abortion, allowing it only in the case of rape, incest or risk of maternal death. [5] He signed a letter from Democrats for Life of America calling for greater acceptance of pro-Life views in the Democratic party. [6]