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SAT US History Practice Question

In Powell v. Alabama, the Supreme Court revoked the death sentences of the "Scottsboro boys" on the grounds that

  1. A.the police had forced the defendants to confess their guilt
  2. B.the defendants had been denied the right to a trial by jury
  3. C.the defendants had alibis from eyewitnesses who had not been allowed to testify
  4. D.the defendants had been denied the right to due process
  5. E.the defendants had been framed for crimes committed by other people

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