If the death penalty is supposed to represent the ultimate form of justice, why is it applied so unevenly? From subjective legal standards to racial disparities and wrongful convictions, capital punishment reveals a system where not all lives are treated equally—and where who lives and who dies can depend more on interpretation than justice.
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Of Needles, Guns, and Electricity
SCOTUS recently decided to hear arguments over whether lethal injection violates the 8th Amendment’s prohibitions against cruel and unusual punishment.