Jamelle Bouie: Why Whites Support Capital Punishment

Jamelle Bouie: Why whites support capital punishment
As Stuart Banner explores in his book “The Death Penalty: An American History,” one of the earliest American-made capital statutes — as opposed to ones borrowed from England — was passed in New York in the aftermath of a 1712 slave revolt. Likewise …
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