By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan
Grotesque abuses of state power as in Oklahoma and Alabama are what led the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Henry Blackmun to conclude, in a dissenting opinion in a 1994 case, “the death penalty remains fraught with arbitrariness, discrimination, caprice, and mistake.”
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