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15 CRIME Abolish the Death abolition Aikens American Amici Curiae Appendix assault Attorney Bedau Bill of Rights brief California capital punishment Carolina Church Code Ann committed condemned Constitution constitutionality convicted CRIM Criminal Laws cruel and unusual death penalty Death Row death sentence defendant degree murder deterrent Dodd Duffy Eaton Eighth Amendment enacted March evidence execution federal Georgia Gottlieb hereafter cited homicide homicide rates human imposed imprisonment inflicted infra ishment JAMES AIKENS July jurisdictions jury Justice kidnapping for ransom killing lashes legislative Legislature ment mental NATIONAL PRISONER STATISTICS offense Penal Code person petitioner petitioner's pillory police Psychiatry question Ramsey Clark rape reason REPORT robbery ROYAL COMMISSION Sellin sentence of death Sess social society standards of decency Stat statute stripes studies supra Supreme Court Texas thirty-nine tion torture trial UNITED NATIONS victim Warden Whipping WILLIAM HENRY FURMAN Writ of Certiorari