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  2. Why is the death penalty still used? Let's look at the pros ...

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    But are these legitimate arguments? The death penalty is sought in only a fraction of murder cases, and it is often doled out capriciously. The National Academy of Sciences concludes that its role ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. The Death Penalty: Opposing Viewpoints - Wikipedia

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    The Death Penalty: Opposing Viewpoints is a book in the Opposing Viewpoints series. It presents selections of contrasting viewpoints on the death penalty : first surveying centuries of debate on it; then questioning whether it is just; whether it is an effective deterrent; and whether it is applied fairly.

  5. List of United States Supreme Court opinions involving ...

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    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 ...

  6. Prosecution in Idaho student murder case narrows death ... - AOL

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    In 13 legal briefs, the prosecution countered thousands of pages filed earlier by the defense that posed myriad arguments, including that the state’s death penalty statute is ...

  7. Libertarian perspectives on capital punishment - Wikipedia

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    Walter Block went so far as to say, "We have seen that in the libertarian philosophy, the death penalty is justified for those whose crimes rise to a sufficient degree of severity. Surely, there are heads of state whose evil deeds many times eclipse such a level.

  8. Idaho college killings to remain a death penalty case

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    In June 2023, prosecutors announced they intended to seek the death penalty against the onetime Ph.D. student accused of fatally stabbing four University of Idaho students -- Kaylee Goncalves, 21 ...

  9. Furman v. Georgia - Wikipedia

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    Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (1972), was a landmark criminal case in which the United States Supreme Court decided that arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.