... punishment believe that the argument that the death penalty is discriminatory and arbitrary does not give support to the elimination of capital punishment, but rather to the expansion of it. Edward Koch, the former mayor of New York from 1978 to 1989 and avid death penalty supporter, states that the discriminatory manner of the death penalty "no longer seems to be ... attempt to justify it in some way. Those who support capital punishment claim that there has never been such a case in which and innocent person was wrongfully executed. For instance, Edward Koch quotes Hugo Bedau in suppo...

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