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Fewer Texans sentenced to death, executed amid “evolving standards of decency”
Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment. But the decline in new death sentences and executions reached a ...
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A more accurate view of death penalty research | Dusty Wright
Lott claims that the scientific consensus is that the death penalty is a deterrent, writing: “Most peer-reviewed academic research contends that each additional execution causes there to be ...
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Kansas death penalty faces constitutional challenge in Wyandotte County homicide case
In an unusual court proceeding that began in October, the ACLU and other attorneys asserted that Kansas' death penalty law ...
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Kansas death penalty under scruitiny in 2019 case
The Wyandotte County slaying of four people has prompted a constitutional challenge. TOPEKA — A long-shot constitutional ...