The Eventual Death of the Death Penalty?

How will the death penalty come to an end in the United States? Alan Dershowitz makes a prediction.

It’s going to happen the way things always happen at the court. The court will appear to be leading, but it will be following.

— Professor Alan Dershowitz, offering a prediction about how the Supreme Court will eventually kill off the death penalty. The Court effectively suspended the death penalty in 1972 but brought it back in 1976, a story chronicled in a fascinating new book I’m currently reading, Evan Mandery’s A Wild Justice: The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America (affiliate link).

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