1. Capital Punishment: The Abolit
The nation's death-row population now numbers more than 3, 335 inmates. ... (Mello, "Against the Death Penalty" 31) Another major augment against the death penalty is that it violates the constitutional guarantee of equal protection. ... Jesse Jackson, Jr., D-I11 said, "death-penalty Darwinism? Death-penalty survival of the fittest?" ... (Bedau) Perhaps the most blatant fallacy in the pro-death penalty argument that abolitionists prey on is that the death penalty is a viable form of crime control. ...
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