Assertion: death penalty | /r/HasProperty | applied
Facets:
value: fairly
type: DEGREE
value: unevenly
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: People who oppose the death penalty argue that it is unevenly applied, creating the potential for erroneous executions of innocent people.
text: About half the American public says the death penalty is not imposed frequently enough and 60 percent believe it is applied fairly, according to a Gallup poll from May 2006.
text: In 2005 in the Stanford Law Review, John J. Donohue III, a law professor at Yale with a doctorate in economics, and Justin Wolfers, an economist at the University of Pennsylvania, wrote that the death penalty "is applied so rarely that the number of homicides it can plausibly have caused or deterred cannot reliably be disentangled from the large year-to-year changes in the homicide rate caused by other factors. ...
text: In fact, when the death penalty is applied, people are killed not for current acts of aggression, but for offences committed in the past.