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Death Penalty Laws Questioned Before High Court
Stanford professor Anthony Amsterdam argues that state death penalty statutes still grant excessive discretion to juries and prosecutors and remain unconstitutional despite 1972 rulings. The debate centers on Eighth Amendment limits and the role of legislators in shaping capital punishment.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Anthony G. Amsterdam
Stanford University Law School
U.S
Naacp Legal Defense Fund
Fowler
Robert H. Bork
Amsterdam
North Carolina
William O. Douglas
Douglas
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
New York
Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine
New York University
Thurgood Marshall
Marshall
Benoy
John Griffin
Raleigh, N.C
Harry A. Blackmun
Bork