Which of the following statements about public executions in the United States today is LEAST accurate?

A. Only one-quarter of all the states (plus the federal government) still has the death penalty.
B. The Supreme Court has ruled that mentally retarded convicts cannot be put to death.
C. The United States is the only Western democracy that uses the death penalty.
D. The Supreme Court has ruled that convicts cannot be put to death for murders that they committed when they were minors.
E. DNA tests have led to the exoneration of over a dozen convicts that were sentenced to death.


Answer: A

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