Who was the intellectual leader and "front man" of the capital project of the organization that challenged the constitutionality of the death penalty in the 1960s?

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Shirley Rivers

12 August, 19:51

Who was the intellectual leader and "front man" of the capital project of the organization that challenged the constitutionality of the death penalty in the 1960s?

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Melvin Taylor · Answer 1

Answer:Anthony Amsterdam

Explanation:

Anthony Amsterdam, was an American Born intellectual of Law and professor, who was born in the year 1935. He has great influenced in the field of Law especially in Civil rights and contemporary law, he seriously against the use of capital Purnishment (Death Penalities) as a means of Purnishment for crimes. He published several books criticising capital Purnishment such as a means punishment. He is the author of The Defensive Transfer of Civil Rights Legislation from State to Federal Courts (1964), Trial Manual for the Defense of Criminal Cases (5th ed., 1989). He is known as the "Front man" who led the challenged the constitutionality of Death Penalty in 1960.

Brittany Cuevas · Answer 2

The correct answer is Anthony Amsterdam

Explanation:

The "front man" of the capital project which was leading the NAACP Legal Defense Fund was Anthony Amsterdam, a professor who organized an attack on the death penalty using a strategy called moratorium. Besides that, the Legal Defense Fund managed to block all death executions for five years "death-row logjam".