... new deal. On July 2, 1976, almost two hundred years since the United States of America passed the Declaration of Independence, the Supreme Court legalized capital punishment (Appendix 1). Capital punishment, however, began long before this. In 1622 Daniel Frank, of the Colony of Virginia, was lawfully executed for the crime of theft. Since then there have been an estimated 18,000 to 20,000 people lawfully ... to wipe out racism. Among the foremost writers who have criticized the death penalty is Charles L. Black, Jr., Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School. In his book, Capital Pun...

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