... achieve consistency. Of the 38 states that allow capital punishment very few use capital punishment regularly. Six states conduct 70% of all executions. Numerous studies have documented arbitrariness involving the influence of race. (3) In the book, Equal Justice and the Death Penalty, the authors have done a very comprehensive legal and empirical analysis of capital punishment statistics during the periods between Furman v. Georgia (1972 ... , he comments, "If this principle is understood to require that punishments are unjust unless they are like the crime itself, then the principle is ...

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