Epstein and Kobylka's analysis of the Supreme Court decisions are based on three factors. They look at the court itself, the political environment of the country and the role that interest groups play in Supreme Court decisions. The authors pay attention to the role of the NAACP legal defense fund and the ACLU as interest groups advocating for the abolition of the death ... shaky anti-death penalty majority. Epstein and Kobylka, argue that the change in the composition of the court, the political climate which supported the death penalty, along with a NAACP LDF legal strategy that did not ade...

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... is arbitrarily imposed. The arguments of deterrence and retribution are emotionally charged issues but I will show why I share Mr. Greenberg's view that the arguments cannot be justified under our current legal system. 1. Equal Justice In 1972, the Supreme Court declared the death penalty unconstitutional, in violation of the Eighth and the Fourteenth Amendments. (Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238) Since that time 38 ... 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 h...

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... have been chosen by the people, as all high ranking officials ought to be, in a democratic government. Judges who sit on the Supreme Court or any court within the Federal legal system hold the office for life, barring poor behavior. This also means that unlike the other branches of government which are rotated regularly, the justices see many terms come and ... of the land, however, strict and loose interpretation of this document leads to a variety of explanations. Therefore it is imperative that only a select group of people are involved in this analysis of this important paper. Rigor...

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