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  2. Capital punishment debate in the United States - Wikipedia

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    It is not only the abstracted 'general public' that is affected by the media's coverage of the death penalty. The media's framing of cases involving the sexual degradation of women affects district attorneys' conceptualizations of said cases, resulting in prosecutors being more apt to pursue the death penalty in cases that involve the sexual ...

  3. Cost of seeking death penalty is high in California — but the ...

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    After adjusting for inflation, the court costs of pursuing death penalty convictions, along with the accompanying appeals that are required by law and can take as long as 40 years to play out ...

  4. Oklahoma and its affinity for the death penalty - AOL

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    State capital cases, or death penalty proceedings, cost state taxpayers 3.2 times more than noncapital cases on average, according to the 2017 study of the Oklahoma death penalty. More revealing ...

  5. California could finally abolish our racist, costly ...

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    The inequities in death penalty cases have a long history, affecting groups in ways that are more than troublesome. The petition to the state Supreme Court cites more than a dozen studies showing ...

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

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    Harris, 465 U.S. 37 (1984) — A state appellate court, before it affirms a death sentence, is not required to compare the sentence in the case before it with the penalties imposed in similar cases if requested to do so by the prisoner. Whitmore v. Arkansas, 495 U.S. 149 (1990) — Mandatory appellate review is not required in death penalty cases.

  7. Capital punishment by country - Wikipedia

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    The countries in the Americas that most recently abolished the death penalty are Suriname (2015), Argentina (2009), and Bolivia (2009). Guatemala abolished the death penalty for civil cases in 2017. Executions in the Americas in 2019: United States (22). [151]

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

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    In Tennessee, federally prosecuted capital trials where the death penalty is sought cost about 50% more than those where it is not, and 29% of these sentences are overturned on appeal.

  9. Kennedy v. Louisiana - Wikipedia

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    Kennedy v. Louisiana, 554 U.S. 407 (2008), is a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States which held that the Eighth Amendment's Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause prohibits the imposition of the death penalty for a crime in which the victim did not die and the victim's death was not intended.