Concerns About Fairness and Discrimination in the Capital Sentencing Process

question 29

Short Answer

Concerns about fairness and discrimination in the capital sentencing process  prompted death penalty opponents to call not for procedural reforms but for a  ____________on executions in the United States.

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Definitions:

Carpels

The female reproductive organ of a flower, consisting of an ovary, a stigma, and usually a style.

Mature Ovary

The part of the female reproductive organ in angiosperms that has completed its development phase, typically containing the ovules and ready for fertilization.

Stigmatized Pollen Grain

a pollen grain that has been rejected or marked negatively by stigma cells, potentially due to species incompatibility in plant reproduction.

Megaspore

The larger type of spore in some plants that develops into a female gametophyte.