The death penalty debate in Pennsylvania has taken an unexpected turn, just as a series of U.S. Supreme Court cases gave hope to death penalty abolitionists that the end may be near. Life without parole, a sentencing alternative to the death penalty championed by capital punishment opponents, is under attack, and an unlikely alliance may ultimately be its savior.
The death penalty has been the subject of a great deal of recent scrutiny by the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2002, the court decided two important death penalty cases — Ring v. Arizona, 536 US 584 (2002), and Atkins v. Virginia, 536 US 304 (2002).
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