OPINION: The death penalty has no place in America. Anthony Langdon. ANTHONY LANGDON. Author email; Aug 31, 2021 Aug 31, 2021 Updated Dec 13, 2021; ... Follow ANTHONY LANGDON Close ...

In America, the death penalty has been an effective form of punishment for certain crimes since the founding of our nation. The Supreme Court ruled in the 1976 Gregg v.

Indeed, as the Death Penalty Information Center has pointed out, more than one-third of the nation’s death-row population is in states in which governors have said no executions will take place.

The debate over capital punishment has been heating up, prompted by two high-profile Supreme Court cases. The first case, Baze v.Rees, tested the constitutionality of the most commonly used form of ...

When the Michigan legislature considered the issue of capital punishment in 1846, these two factors—the public’s moral repugnance of the death penalty and the fear of executing an innocent ...

“Since then, death sentences have plummeted, executions are down considerably, public support has dropped, and the number of states without the death penalty has grown by 50 percent,” he said.

America has not thought remotely hard enough about the death penalty We must think longer and harder about why we support (or don't) the act of execution. Far too much is at stake.