The Power of Forgiveness and Everything

The US capital punishment system, like many other parts of its society get held up as distinctly different from other advanced democracies. A major theme that runs through the book is that the rest of the world is just stunned that the US would even consider executing someone for a crime committed as a 15 year old child. The Supreme Court decision that declared that the death penalty for crimes committed by people as minors violated the Eighth Amendment did end up citing its footnotes.

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