Why is the McClesky v. Kemp (1987) case important?
A. The Supreme Court refused to consider the case for review.
B. The Supreme Court required that any jury in Georgia that considered sentencing a Black person to death must have at least one Black jury member.
C. The Supreme Court upheld the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.
D. The Supreme Court upheld McCleskey's death sentence despite the evidence that in Georgia, killers of White people are far more frequently sentenced to die than are killers of Blacks.
D
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a. Because Native Americans believe that self-inflicted death is viewed as preferable to death due to illness or disease, and is regarded as an admirable act. b. Because of the high rate of depression in Native Americans. c. Because Native Americans place a high premium on their honor, and suicide is seen as a necessary action when a family's honor has been lost. d. Because the connection Native Americans have to their spiritual past makes suicide a more socially acceptable option.