Sentences with phrase «n't abolished the death penalty»
Of the states that haven't abolished the death penalty, Texas has carried out the most executions with 520 since 1977.
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The death penalty should be abolished not for religious reasons (also religious people seem to approve of the dath penalty — which to me makes no sense) but because every person who is killed is one less set of DNA to be passed on to succeeding generations, and who knows what those wasted genes could mean for the future of the species?
You'll notice, for instance, that he's not out there campaigning on an «abolish the death penalty» platform.
In Nebraska, the death penalty had not been used for nearly two decades and then was abolished last year.
One of the strongest arguments in recent years for abolishing the death penalty has arisen, not from the moral prohibition against the taking of life, but from the fact that with rare exceptions those who are executed are people who lack the means to secure good legal assistance, or lack the educational background to make full use of such assistance, or lack the social status which brings the case to public attention.11
Hillary Clinton said she doesn't support abolishing the death penalty but would like to see it used more judiciously, another point of contrast with the most liberal members of her party and with her nearest rival for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Imagine if the legislature decided to abolish the death penalty, not as the culmination of an emotional debate about who we are as a society, but to save the few million bucks a year that the state pays to endlessly defend and prosecute death - row murderers.
An interesting answer, although this doesn't really «abolish the death penalty» - just makes it very difficult (to the point of being virtually impossible) to enforce.
Let us suppose that those 31 states (and their legislatures, governors, courts, etc) are intent on preserving the death penalty, so that a Constitutional amendment to abolish it would not be ratified by 3/4 of state legislatures as required.