Author Question: Texas executed _____ murderers between 1982 and April 2014. a. 32 b. 97 c. 112 d. 514 e. ... (Read 55 times)

abarnes · **on:** Jul 8, 2018

Texas executed _____ murderers between 1982 and April 2014.

a. 32
b. 97
c. 112
d. 514
e. about 1,000

Question 2

In 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court temporarily stopped the states from carrying out capital punishment in large part because of its finding that the death penalty _____.

a. invariably violated the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment
b. violated the Fifth Amendment's due process clause
c. was applied in a racially biased manner
d. could not be shown to deter crime
e. violated U.S. obligations under international human rights treaties