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Pennsylvania Supreme Court is right to reject petition against death penalty | Opinion

Stronger eyewitness identification and standards of proof can chart a reasonable middle course between abolition and the status quo.

People line up outside courtroom 456 before the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office, the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office, and attorneys with the Federal Community Defender Office, argued about the constitutionality of the state's death penalty, at Philadelphia's City Hall on Sept. 11, 2019. The Supreme Court rejected a petition against the death penalty on Sept. 26.
People line up outside courtroom 456 before the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office, the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office, and attorneys with the Federal Community Defender Office, argued about the constitutionality of the state's death penalty, at Philadelphia's City Hall on Sept. 11, 2019. The Supreme Court rejected a petition against the death penalty on Sept. 26.Read moreJESSICA GRIFFIN / Staff Photographer
    by George Ferko, for the Inquirer
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