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Sonia Sotomayor: “The death penalty should not be allowed in America because it created a racial bias and it was undue burden on the…”

On the recordDecember 31, 1980
The death penalty should not be allowed in America because it created a racial bias and it was undue burden on the perpetrator and their family.
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Sonia Sotomayor
New York

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Sotomayor explains her stance against the death penalty based on racial bias.

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