Which of these is not an argument put forth by opponents of the death penalty?

Which of these is not an argument put forth by opponents of the death penalty?
 
  a. Innocent people are sometimes executed.
  b. Capital punishment is racially biased.
  c. Social science studies are inconclusive as to whether the death penalty deters criminal behavior.
  d. It costs more to execute a criminal than to imprison someone for life.
  e. Two wrongs do not make a right.

 Q. 2

Texas executed _____ murderers between 1982 and April 2014.
 
  a. 32
  b. 97
  c. 112
  d. 514
  e. about 1,000

 Q. 3

In 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court temporarily stopped the states from carrying out capital punishment in large part because of its finding that the death penalty _____.
 
  a. invariably violated the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment
  b. violated the Fifth Amendment's due process clause
  c. was applied in a racially biased manner
  d. could not be shown to deter crime
  e. violated U.S. obligations under international human rights treaties

 Q. 4

Capital punishment is also known as _____.
 
  a. tort reform
 b. the death penalty
 c. civil rights
 d. civil liberties
 e. life without parole

 Q. 5

In the case of _____, the Texas Department of Corrections (TDC) was found to be guilty of cruel and unusual punishment in the administration of the state's prison system.
 
  a. Ruiz v. Estelle
  b. Edgewood v. Kirby
  c. Engel v. Vitale
  d. Smith v. Allwright
  e. Roe v. Wade

 Q. 6

Which of these is not an example of Texas's initial response to Ruiz v. Estelle?
 
  a. denying that poor conditions existed
 b. stalling on reforms
 c. criticizing the federal court's interference in state matters
 d. appropriating more money for Texas prisons, although the amount was inadequate
  e. dragging out the case

 Q. 7

In the case of civil rights of inmates in state prisons, historically _____.
 
  a. states actively addressed civil rights for prisoners
 b. states actively addressed civil rights for prisoners except for minority prisoners
 c. state courts aggressively moved to protect prisoner rights while federal courts resisted
  d. the states resisted change, and the federal courts had to become involved
 e. state and federal courts cooperated in protecting prisoners' civil rights