+ Death Penalty Quiz
                     STATES WITH THE DEATH PENALTY (31)
    STATES WITHOUT THE DEATH PENALTY (19) (YEAR ABOLISHED IN PARENTHESES)
   state's death penalty law was unconstitutional.  In 2007, they ruled
   state's death penalty was in violation of the state's constitution,
   the death penalty in 2012. The ruling means that the death sentences of
   state’s death penalty no longer comports with contemporary standards of
   ‘‘'[W]e have little more than an illusion of a death penalty in this
   country. ... Whatever purposes the death penalty is said to serve—
   discretionary death penalty system. Because such a system fails to
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