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Death Penalty Moratorium

NPR
Published July 13, 2000 at 12:00 AM EDT

Martha Barnett the incoming president of the American Bar Association urged the nation's lawyers to support a death penalty moratorium, saying there is widespread unfairness and even gross injustice in the way it is applied.

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