In what year did the last state switch from mandatory death penalty statutes to discretionary death penalty statutes?

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Patricky

31 May, 18:01

In what year did the last state switch from mandatory death penalty statutes to discretionary death penalty statutes?

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Cassius Bender · Answer 1

1963

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There was a legal provision for mandatory death penalties for anyone who gets convicted of capital crime. In 1837, Tennessee becamee the first state that decided to follow another direction by providing discretionary death penalty for murder. Towards the end of the nineteenth century, over twenty jurisdictions have moved onto discretionary death penalty and in 1963, New York became the last state to do so.