New report explores the connection between the death penalty and electoral politics

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

43% : But Maher explained, "the big finding that jumped out at us was that we found that supreme courts affirmed two times the number of death sentences in election years as opposed to non-election years.
42% : The state can't lay its hands on the drugs necessary for lethal injection, so executions have stopped, and death row inmates are facing an indefinite delay.

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