The Court then asserted that the death penalty statute needed more restrictive guidelines, and Texas quickly responded. ... Keith Harries and Derral Cheatwood explain the disparity in their book The Geography of Execution, which primarily examines the historical geography of capital punishment in the United States: Some 58.1 percent of the 2,356 prisoners on death rows in 1990 were found in the South (U.S. ...

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Ireland, although it is a young independent State, enacted legislation aimed at combatting violence against the State a long time ago, while France was among the last of the European States to avail itself of anti-terrorist legislation opening the way for the creation of specialized courts. ...

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