The death penalty fails through innocent executions, arbitrariness, and racial discrimination

Evidence

In his dissent Justice Steven G. Beyer, joined by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, argued that the Supreme Court should address the more basic question of whether the death penalty violates the Eighth Amendment of cruel and unusual punishment. He documented the tragic failings of the death penalty: Execution of innocent people; exoneration of death row inmates because of false convictions; arbitrary imposition of death sentences; and corruption of the capital justice system by racial discrimination and politics. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2083

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2083
• XREF: connects to: Capital verdicts are often reversed due to inadequate counsel and condemned innocents — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 2050; Administering presumed guilt by area doubles down racialized vulnerability to death. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 508