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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 as a deterrent is ambiguous.
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 ...
In 13 new filings Thursday, the defense cited the U.S. and Idaho Constitutions in its request to remove the death penalty as a possible sentence if a jury finds Kohberger guilty of murder.
The 2024 presidential election leaves people opposed to the death penalty in a quandary. The American people have returned to the White House someone who wants to expand the uses of capital ...
February 19, 2019, CCATDP’s national manager testified before the New Hampshire House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee on HB455, a bill to end the death penalty in the state. [24] On March 26 CCATDP’s national manager returned to The Granite to testify in favor of the same bill before the state Senate Judiciary Committee.
Death penalty opponents regard the death penalty as inhumane [206] and criticize it for its irreversibility. [207] They argue also that capital punishment lacks deterrent effect, [ 208 ] [ 209 ] [ 210 ] or has a brutalization effect, [ 211 ] [ 212 ] discriminates against minorities and the poor, and that it encourages a "culture of violence ...
President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday he will direct the Department of Justice to “vigorously pursue the death penalty” after President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the death sentences ...
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 ...