Why America Still Has the Death Penalty | US Capital Punishment | Spotlight | N18G

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Why does the United States still have the death penalty? While much of the Western world has abolished capital punishment, the US continues to sentence and execute prisoners. But America's relationship with the death penalty has changed dramatically over the past five decades. In 1972, the Supreme Court effectively halted capital punishment, only for the court to restore it four years later. So what has changed? In this edition of Firstpost Spotlight, Daniela Laurel traces the history of America’s death penalty through crime, race, violence, guns and the politics of law and order. --- 00:00 - Introduction 01:05 - Capital Punishment in the US 02:17 - Furman vs Georgia 03:11 - Death Penalty Returns to US 03:52 - Why Death Penalty Returned to US 05:50 - Political Cost of Capital Punishment 07:08 - Capital Punishment Status Across US 08:10 - Trump Backs Capital Punishment 09:40 - Death Penalty Around the World --- Death Penalty | Trump | US Death Penalty | Furm

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