The Death Penalty Thirty Eight Years Later
It was this month in 1972 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled capital punishment was both cruel and unusual, especially due to some states’ “capricious and arbitrary” ways of employing the death penalty. The Court ruled race placed too large a role in determining who lived or died. It didn’t stop there, says A. Harrison Barnes, […]
Posted on July 10th, 2010 by tommayor
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