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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 ...
Clinton won the presidency twice. The death penalty. One of Harris’ most pronounced shifts was over the death penalty, which she pledged to never pursue when elected San Francisco district attorney.
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 death penalty. One of Harris’ most pronounced shifts was over the death penalty. During a 2004 inauguration speech after her election as San Francisco’s district attorney, Harris vowed to ...
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 ...
The New York Post reported one post-debate poll, which showed that, by a 21-point margin (50 percent to 29 percent), voters thought Harris won the debate. But, in terms of whom they supported for ...
Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, said she has "a mixed record". [19] As the district attorney of San Francisco, Harris opposed the death penalty, refusing to request it for a man charged with the murder of a police officer. This decision was controversial and criticized by Senator Dianne Feinstein. [20]