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The Political Base of the Death Penalty

Loaded on May 15, 1995 by Monica Zucker published in Prison Legal News May, 1995, page 20
Filed under: Death Penalty/Death Row, Death Penalty. Location: United States of America.
The experiences of murder and punishment change enormously in different places and different times.  All of us know that in our time the United States ranks very high in number of murders and prisoners, in length of incarceration, and in death sentences.

We may be hardened to comparisons with apartheid ...

 

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