... on death penalty advocates, but recently this argument has become less effective due to what one source said, "...in recent years the appeal of deterrence has been supplanted by a frank desire for what large majorities see as just vengeance." (Dionne 178-180) Xavier (Frankie) Yanez: According to advocates of the death penalty the main reason some of them take ... from state to state. The states that have death penalty laws are: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, M...

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... thirty-eight states with capital punishment statutes provide automatic review of all capital sentences. While most of those states automatically review both the conviction and the sentence, Indiana, Idaho, Tennessee, Montana, and Oklahoma require only a review of the sentence. If an inmate in one of those states wanted a conviction reviewed, he or she would have to file an appeal or lose ... ...

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