Four decades ago, the U.S. Supreme Court imposed a moratorium on the death penalty, finding that its imposition at the time was so arbitrary and “pregnant with discrimination” that it was a violation of the Eighth Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. As governor of Georgia at the time, former President Jimmy Carter helped to reinstate the death penalty by signing measures into law that would satisfy the court’s concerns…
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http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/11/12/2927531/jimmy-carter-calls-death-penalty-abolition/
Clip from the Tuesday, November 12th 2013 edition of The Kyle Kulinski Show, which airs live on Blog Talk Radio and Secular Talk Radio monday – friday 4-6pm Eastern.
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