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Re-affirming the 1970 Resolution on Abolition of the Death Penalty

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the NAACP direct its National Office to use its prestige and resources to press for the Supreme Court of the United States to abolish the death penalty as a cruel and inhuman punishment in violation of the equal protection clause and therefore unconstitutional.

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