penaltyess, anti-death at the -- activists have accepted this conclusion that the death penalty does not deter and that is something that the american legal institute is now backing and this is the assumption behind this whole thing, that the deterrence argument has become irrelevant and we have to look to other arguments to figure out whether to continue with it or not. that is an issue that came up and later became a fruitless avenue for legal change was the issue of racial dissemination. -- showingy 80's, the victim,e of more than the victim of the perpetrator was a significant variable in the disposition of the death penalty -- in an effort to attack the death penalty in court and a supreme court case called klinsky versus cap. the supreme court says we can't accept the general research argument that there seems to be racial discrimination in its application, the petitioner have to prove that you have descendents for death for racial reasons we can't really address things via the general premise of what the scientific findings think. that avenue was fruitless because it would be