Death Penalty and Morality
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DEATH PENALT AND MORALITY
Capital Punishment is the legal infliction of the
death penalty. In the United States capital
punishment is legal in thirty-nine of the fifty
states. Beginning in 1973, prison populations began
an inevitable growth. There were 204,211 inmates in
1973, and by 1977 the number of prisoners had grown to
285,456, which later grew to 315,974 in 1980. By
1976, it was clear that the death penalty had to be
reinstated. America's twenty-one year experiment with
capital punishment has resulted
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rejected a challenge to capital punishment based on statistics that indicated racial bias in sentencing. In separate decisions in 1989 the Court decided that the death penalty could be applied to those who were mentally retarded or who were underage, but at least 16, at the time of the murder. In the early 1990s the trend of Supreme Court rulings was to cut back on the appeals that Death Row inmates could make to the federal courts.
rejected a challenge to capital punishment based on statistics that indicated racial bias in sentencing. In separate decisions in 1989 the Court decided that the death penalty could be applied to those who were mentally retarded or who were underage, but at least 16, at the time of the murder. In the early 1990s the trend of Supreme Court rulings was to cut back on the appeals that Death Row inmates could make to the federal courts.