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Tinkering With the Death Machine
Hitchens, Christopher | July 22, 2002 issue

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The article discusses the death penalty law in the United States, considering the factors for executing the innocent, underage and mentally underdeveloped. Death penalty involves the destruction of evidence in a criminal case. A United States Supreme Court ruling that mentally retarded offenders may not be executed raised many issues. One of the arguments against the death penalty is its populism. It is asserted that abolitionism is the only relevant and comparable term to the death penalty law.

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CAPITAL punishment; POPULISM; MENTALLY ill; PEOPLE with mental disabilities & crime; JUVENILE delinquents; ANTISLAVERY movements; UNITED States
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