In Furman v. Georgia, the U.S. Supreme Court said that death penalty laws conferring unfettered discretion upon the sentencer inevitably resulted in arbitrary imposition and violated the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments.
The history of capital punishment in New York State is bloody, divisive, given to the worst of political pandering and the best of high-minded debate – and, under any rational analysis, weird.
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