Word: countercampaign
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...numbers, the more difficult it would be for the courts to permit the first execution." The battle is not over, of course. At least 19 states have passed new statutes that permit capital punishment for specific crimes, and a group of district attorneys is now trying to organize a countercampaign not unlike that of the L.D.F. The idea is that the court's ruling had hinged on objections to the capriciousness with which capital punishment was administered and therefore if the conditions calling for death are rigidly defined under new laws, they may pass constitutional scrutiny...