People keep voting in support of the death penalty. So how can we end it?
- Written by Austin Sarat, Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
Signatures were collected to put the death penalty on the 2016 Nebraska ballot.AP Photo/Nati HarnikEnding the death penalty in the United States won’t be easy.
After death penalty abolitionists slowly pushed toward its elimination for years, supporters of state killing have mounted a fierce effort in the courts and at the ballot box and...
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