claim: "there are no federal or state laws that say prosecutors must seek death sentences. and the united states supreme court has banned all state laws that make executions mandatory for murders."
author: randolph bracy
evidence_1: methods of execution; recent state enactmentsu.s. supreme court ...  additionally, courts in delaware recently ruled that the state's capital punishment  law is ... supreme court held 5-4 that death row inmates are unlikely to succeed  on their claim ... the prisoners in this case did not do so and claimed they did not  have to.
evidence_2: federal death row, like state rows and the military row, is a single jurisdiction with  its ... the u.s. attorneys in each district are the ones who actually prosecute the  cases, ... there are no prisoners on the federal row for treason or air piracy, for ...  convicted and sentenced to death for the killing of a prisoner in a federal prison.
evidence_3: furthermore, we believe that the state should not give itself the right to kill human  ... we strive to prevent executions and seek the abolition of capital punishment. ...  the fbi has found the states with the death penalty have the highest murder  rates. ... the defects in death-penalty laws, conceded by the supreme court in  the ...
evidence_4: half of those executed were foreign nationals, including 33 from pakistan and  women ... un human rights experts also have condemned the prosecution,  saying that ... the u.s. supreme court has reversed a kentucky state court ruling  that would .... milam was convicted under texas's controversial “law of parties,”  which ...
evidence_5: capital punishment is a legal penalty under the united states federal  government criminal justice system. it can be handed down for treason,  espionage, murder, large-scale drug ... as of 2018, all inmates currently under  federal death sentences were .... the sentence is decided by the jury and must  be unanimous. in case of ...