![]() This sent lawmakers in 37 states scrambling to salvage capital punishment, whose popularity rose in public opinion polls by nearly 10 points after the ruling.Ĭhammah focuses largely on Texas. Georgia, which struck down every state's death penalty scheme as unconstitutionally arbitrary and discriminatory. Supreme Court's momentous 1972 decision in Furman v. ![]() Let the Lord Sort Them opens with the U.S. history.Ĭhammah-a reporter at The Marshall Project, a nonprofit newsroom dedicated to criminal justice coverage-arrives just in time to explain how we got here. ![]() Ralph Northam (D) signed legislation to end capital punishment in the state that has carried out more executions than any other in U.S. Criminal justice advocates are now urging the White House to commute the death sentences of those remaining on federal death row. Meanwhile, President Joe Biden campaigned on eliminating the federal death penalty. The historic killing spree reignited a well-worn debate about capital punishment. In the final months of Donald Trump's presidency, shortly before this book was released, the Justice Department rushed through eight executions after a 17-year pause in use of the federal death penalty. Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty, by Maurice Chammah, Crow, 368 pages, $28Ī gruesome coincidence has made Maurice Chammah's Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty timely. ![]()
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