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In one of the most famous quotes from the case Justice Stewart said "These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual." [9] If there was any identifiable basis for why the death penalty was imposed in these cases, it was "the constitutionally impermissible basis of race".
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 ...
The experience of the state legislatures and the Congress—who retain the death penalty as a form of punishment—is dismissed as "the product of habit and inattention rather than an acceptable deliberative process". The experience of social scientists whose studies indicate that the death penalty deters crime is relegated to a footnote.
The Death Penalty Information Center’s recent annual report contained good news for those opposed to capital punishment. The number of new death sentences remained small by historical standards ...
When the French parliament overwhelmingly outlawed the death penalty in 1981, he put his hand on the plaque commemorating Victor Hugo’s seat, also a strident abolitionist, and said “It is done.”
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 ...
[15]: 95 To judge by what I now endure, the hand of death grasps me sharply." [11]: 140 [15]: 95 — Salvator Rosa, Italian artist and poet (15 March 1673), when asked how he was "Death is the great key that opens the palace of Eternity." [77] — John Milton, English poet and intellectual (8 November 1674) Death of the Viscount of Turenne.
Texas has executed the most inmates of any other state in the nation, and it's not even close. The Lone Star state has put 591 inmates to death since 1982, most recently Garcia Glen White on Oct. 1.