unconstitutional if procedures existed to prevent the punishment from being applied in an arbitrary manner. Only the most extreme of all manslaughter crimes should be tried under the death sentence and each person has the right to appeal to a higher court or to be able to petition for pardon of the sentence. The death penalty is the pre-meditated and cold-blooded killing of prisoners in state custody. It is the same as if a murderer was to call up his victim and tell that person that on a certain date he/she was going to kill them? What anguish and emotional trauma do you think that person would go through waiting to die? This is exactly what the state judicial system does to
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