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“Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its fi…” — William J. Brennan, Jr.
Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.
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