Discrimination and the Death Penalty

Discrimination and the Death Penalty By Katie Matthews "Twenty years have past since this court declared that the death penalty must be imposed fairly, and with reasonable consistency, or not at all, and, despite the effort of the states and courts to devise legal formulas and procedural rules to meet this daunting challenge, the death penalty remains fraught with arbitrariness, discrimination, caprice and mistake." --Justice Harry Blackmun, Feb. 22, 1994. Capital punishment is one of the most …

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