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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJimmy Carter calls for fresh moratorium on death penalty
Source: The Guardian
Jimmy Carter calls for fresh moratorium on death penalty
Ed Pilkington in New York
theguardian.com, Monday 11 November 2013 14.08 GMT
Former US president Jimmy Carter has called for a new nationwide moratorium on the death penalty, arguing that it is applied so unfairly across the 32 states that still have the death sentence that it amounts to a form of cruel and unusual punishment prohibited under the US constitution.
In an interview with the Guardian, Carter calls on the US supreme court to reintroduce the ban on capital punishment that it imposed between 1972 and 1976. The death penalty today, he said, was every bit as arbitrary as it was when the nine justices suspended it on grounds of inconsistency in the case of Furman v Georgia 41 years ago.
Its time for the supreme court to look at the totality of the death penalty once again, Carter said. My preference would be for the court to rule that it is cruel and unusual punishment, which would make it prohibitive under the US constitution.
Carters appeal for a new moratorium falls at a time of mounting unease about the huge disparities in the use of capital punishment in America. Recent research has shown that most of the 1,352 executions that have taken place since the supreme court allowed them to recommence in 1976 have emanated from just 2% of the counties in the nation.
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Ed Pilkington in New York
theguardian.com, Monday 11 November 2013 14.08 GMT
Former US president Jimmy Carter has called for a new nationwide moratorium on the death penalty, arguing that it is applied so unfairly across the 32 states that still have the death sentence that it amounts to a form of cruel and unusual punishment prohibited under the US constitution.
In an interview with the Guardian, Carter calls on the US supreme court to reintroduce the ban on capital punishment that it imposed between 1972 and 1976. The death penalty today, he said, was every bit as arbitrary as it was when the nine justices suspended it on grounds of inconsistency in the case of Furman v Georgia 41 years ago.
Its time for the supreme court to look at the totality of the death penalty once again, Carter said. My preference would be for the court to rule that it is cruel and unusual punishment, which would make it prohibitive under the US constitution.
Carters appeal for a new moratorium falls at a time of mounting unease about the huge disparities in the use of capital punishment in America. Recent research has shown that most of the 1,352 executions that have taken place since the supreme court allowed them to recommence in 1976 have emanated from just 2% of the counties in the nation.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/11/jimmy-carter-supreme-court-death-penalty
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Jimmy Carter calls for fresh moratorium on death penalty (Original Post)
Eugene
Nov 2013
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gopiscrap
(23,758 posts)1. I agree
Laelth
(32,017 posts)2. k&r for James Earl Carter, Jr. n/t
-Laelth
malaise
(268,968 posts)3. 1,000
Love you Jimmy Carter