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    Death penalty debate rages on in justices’ cert denial dissents (access required)

    Even in cases they decide not to review, justices of the U.S. Supreme Court are not shy about openly debating the hot-button issue of capital punishment. Justice John Paul Stevens famously used the vehicle of a statement accompanying a denial of certiorari to explain his contention that the death penalty system violated the Eighth Amendment's ban ...

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    One Response to “Death penalty debate rages on in justices’ cert denial dissents (access required)”

    1. juile says:
      May 6, 2011 at 10:05 am

      stupiddddddddddddddddddd

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