of opinion since the mid-1960s when, for a brief period, capital punishment advocates found themselves in the minority ( Zimring and Hawkins 1986:39).
             Leslie Horton, awaiting execution for rape in Florida, was enjoying a visit with his family the morning of June 29, 1972, when a guard stepped in and asked "Can you stand some more good news today?" The Supreme Court, the guard informed him, had just abolished the death penalty. Earlier that morning, Chief Justice Warren Burger had announc
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