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in considering the scores of challenges to those state laws, the supreme court found the mandatory death penalty laws unconstitutional, though the 2 stage approach was seen to be constitutional.

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The death penalty was ruled unconstitutional in California. This was because it takes so long for the sentence to be carried out.

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