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Will a conservative Supreme Court give new life to the death penalty?

  • Written by Daniel LaChance, Assistant Professor of History, Emory University
imageSupreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy administers the judicial oath to Justice Neil Gorsuch.AP Photo/Evan Vucci

For years now, the death penalty’s days have seemed numbered.

Death sentences and executions are in decline. And some current Supreme Court justices have been pushing the court to revisit the constitutionality of capital punishment.

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