The State of the Death Penalty in the United States (visuals)

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The State of the Death Penalty in the United States (visuals) by Robert Brett Dunham, Executive Director, Death Penalty Information Center at the Sixth World Congress on the Death Penalty (Oslo, Norway, June 23, 2016)

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