Arguments were presented in McCleskey v. Kemp (1987) that because minorities are more likely to receive the death penalty than whites accused of the same crime, the death penalty violates the
A) due process clause of the Fifth Amendment.
B) prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment in the Eighth Amendment.
C) right of confrontation in the Sixth Amendment.
D) prohibition against double jeopardy in the Fifth Amendment.
E) equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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