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Article: A "commonsense" theory of deterrence and the "ideology" of science: the New York state death penalty debate.
- Article from:
- Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
- Article date:
- September 22, 2001
- Author:
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Capital punishment is one of the most contentious public policy debates in the United States. While surviving since colonial times, (1) the debate has become especially heated since the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Furman v. Georgia in 1972. (2) In that decision, the Supreme Court outlawed executions as then practiced due to the arbitrary and capricious manner in which they had been administered. (3) Most states rushed to reinstate capital punishment statutes they hoped would pass constitutional review. In the equally historic decision of Gregg v. Georgia in 1976. (4) the Supreme Court cleared the way for the resumption of legal executions by approving death penalty ...
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Article: KILL NEW YORK'S UNCONSTITUTIONAL DEATH ...
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... ... bandwagon to enact a death penalty statute, making New York the last of 38 states ... of Appeals, we know New York's death penalty law is unconstitutional ... much; and so on. New York's defunct death penalty law falls well short ...
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