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stone cold posted:Oh gee I dunno maybe because it was a SCOTUS case that deemed the death penalty unconstitutional on both eighth and fourteenth amendment grounds. No it didn't. The court found that the current practice of the death penalty violated the 8th because it was too arbitrary. Which is why, when Georgia and several other states came up with policies for the death penalty that didn't violate the 8th, SCOTUS approved them 4 years later.
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stone cold posted:so again, nuance Well now that we are paying attention to nuance, can we agree that this: Stone cold posted:Oh gee I dunno maybe because it was a SCOTUS case that deemed the death penalty unconstitutional on both eighth and fourteenth amendment grounds. Isn't correct, and there is a difference between SCOTUS declaring the death penalty unconstitutional, and declaring how the death penalty is currently imposed unconstitutional?
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D&D is substantially closer to the former than the latter.
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DC Murderverse posted:And does that criteria outweigh the potential for error (not just in executing innocents, but also the bias towards executing minorities, men, and poor people)? But basically everything the justice system does has a bias towards disproportionally hurting those groups.
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DC Murderverse posted:It's even more pronounced when you look at people sentenced to death. Black people make up 55 percent of people sentenced to death, and 56 percent of people sentenced to life without parole.
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