... who kills a black person (Death Penalty Focus). In response to this, supporters of the death penalty believe that the death penalty should be extended to all murders. This is what was attempted after the Furman decision. A number of states sought to resolve the discriminatory and arbitrary nature of the death penalty by simply sentencing to death everyone convicted of first-degree murder, but the Supreme Court rejected ... by refusing to convict certain arbitrarily chosen defendants of first- degree murder" (Berger 353). An argument against the death penalty which to sensible and decent ...

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... this proposal saying that "mandatory death sentence laws did not really resolve the problem but instead 'simply papered [it] over' since juries responded by refusing to convict certain arbitrarily chosen defendants of first- degree murder" (Berger 353). In an argument against the death penalty to which any levelheaded and decent person(s) would see it is indisputable that innocent people have been murdered ... by the government in the past and in all likelihood more will follow. The wrongful execution of an innocent person is such an awful injustice that any ... them were sentenced to d...

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