Why Did the U

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Multiple Choice

Why did the U.S.Supreme Court halt executions in all states in 1972?

• A) Capital punishment was halted for three months as the Supreme Court investigated the legality of it when the U.S. signed a UN humanitarian charter the same year.
• B) It declared capital punishment unconstitutional as it violated the constitutional prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment because it could be applied in a discriminatory fashion.
• C) Earlier that year, Congress had passed legislation banning the death penalty, and the U.S. Supreme Court upheld it following a lengthy court battle.
• D) A five-month moratorium was placed on the death penalty after it was revealed that in the previous year fifty-six people were wrongly executed following the discovery of new evidence
• E) It declared that several execution methods were cruel and unjust, and banned the death penalty until lethal injection was introduced in all states that had capital punishment.

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