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As Part Of The Overall Challenge To The Death Penalty

Ref As part of the overall challenge to the death penalty Release House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025) 1 pages

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abolitionists were focusing on the significant number of death row inmates who had neither killed nor intended to kill. Most of these non-triggermen had been convicted of murder on the basis of two legal fictions. The first was the law of conspiracy under which each member of a conspiracy is deemed to have committed every crime actually committed by any co-conspirator 58 (Remember Harry Reems.) The second legal fiction was the law of felony-murder under which anyone who intentionally commits a serious felony

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