Cothern analyzes the history of Supreme Court decisions in relation to capital punishment as well as an in depth view of juveniles sentenced to death. The criteria for sentencing a juvenile to death is evaluating the seriousness of the crime, the maturity of the juvenile and their environment, the juvenile's history, and the possibility for rehabilitation of the juvenile as well as the public safety issues. ... The juvenile death penalty has been subject to national debate and Cothern describes the history of the death penalty that has authorized 20,000 executions over the last 350 yea...

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In 1989 37.7 million working American, accounting for 39 percent of the total of income tax returns, received had incomes below $15,000. ... In 1989 there were 249 homicides in New Orleans alone, eighty-five percent of these victims were black. ...

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