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The Death Penalty Is Getting Crueler

by Jill Richardson | Apr 5, 2019 | Blog, Criminal Justice, Supreme Court

For years, most of the U.S. has been changing death penalty laws in the direction of phasing it out, or at least applying it in a more humane way. In 2002, the Supreme Court ruled that people with intellectual disabilities cannot be executed. In 2005, another ruling...

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