9/12/19: The power of Pennsylvania’s “King’s Bench” and the future of the death penalty
Release Date: 09/12/2019
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* Pennsylvania is the last state in the Northeastern region to still have a death penalty law on the books. Now, a rare and powerful tool granted to the state Supreme Court — “King’s Bench” — is being used to test the constitutionality of capital punishment
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