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In Which of the Following Ways May Strong Public Support

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In which of the following ways may strong public support contribute to the continued use of capital punishment?


A) It probably sways legislators to vote in favor of death penalty statutes (and against their repeal) .
B) It likely influences some prosecutors to seek the death penalty for political rather than legal purposes in cases they might ordinarily plea bargain.
C) To retain their positions, some trial-court judges may feel pressured by strong public death penalty support to impose death sentences in cases in which a death sentence is inappropriate, or some appellate-court judges may uphold death sentences in cases in which they should not.
D) It might be used, at least indirectly, by justices of both state supreme courts and the United States Supreme Court as a measure of "evolving standards of decency" regarding what constitutes "cruel and unusual punishment" in state constitutions and under the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution.
E) all of the above

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