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the date is not correct except for the year.
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Pennsylvania limits death penalty to murder and treason only. only the year is correct
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First US congress establishes federal death penalty
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Thomas Bird is the first man federaly executed.
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public executions are called to cruel so the government switches to private executions only the year is correct
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Rhode Island becomes first state to outlaw death penalty for all crimes
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14th amendment is ratified and later used to challenge the death penalty.
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Man killed his lover with an axe
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establish precedents on cruel and unusual punishment
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in 1924 Nevada was the first state to use lethal gas.
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makes kidnapping a federal capital offence
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man executed in public for murder
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he was the first since the civil war
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technical malfunction does not constitute cruel and unusual punishment
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Executed for espionage
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He made this song about the death penaltiy.
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forbids dismissal of jurors based on personal opposition to capital punishment
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overturns 600 death penalty sentances
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publicly oppose death penalty
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The US used this method until 2009.
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Tom Hanks is the star of this great film.
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They figured out that they could use 1 drug instead of 3 or 2.
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this book is about the death penaltiy.
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Utah reauthorized this as an extra method if they could not get the drugs for lethal injection.
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bans the death penalty
