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The Death Penalty
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American Civil Liberties Union Briefing Paper Number 8
Since our nation's founding, the government -- colonial, federal and state --
has punished murder and, until recent years, rape with the ultimate sanction:
death. More than 13,000 people have been legally executed since colon ....
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....Virtually all are poor, a
significant number are mentally retarded or otherwise mentally disabled, more
than 40 percent are African American, and a disproportionate number are Native
American, Latino and Asian.
The ACLU believes that, in all circumstances, the death penalty is
unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment, and that its discriminatory
application violates the Fourteenth Amendment.
Here are the ACLU's answers to some questions frequently raised by the public
about capital punishme.... |
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