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Capital Punishment

Learn about the history of capital punishment, recent statistics, cost implications, racial disparities, and exoneration cases in the United States.

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Capital Punishment

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  1. Capital Punishment Death penalty in the United States

  2. How Many Executions? In 2013—32 Executions in the United States 14 in Texas 6 in Florida 4 in Oklahoma 1,486 since 1976 86% by lethal injection 12% by electric chair—last one in 2010 3 by firing squad—last in 2010 3 By hanging 12 females have been executed

  3. murder of a public safety officer or firefighter in the line of duty murder during the commission of specified felonies (kidnapping, burglary, robbery, aggravated rape, arson) murder for remuneration multiple murders murder during prison escape murder of a correctional officer murder of a judge murder by a state prison inmate who is serving a life sentence for any of five offenses; [or] murder of an individual under six years of age

  4. Countries who use Capital Punishment

  5. The club of prisoner-executing nations is an inauspicious one. You've got the world's great dictatorships and autocracies (Iran, Zimbabwe, China, North Korea, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Egypt, Ethiopia, Cuba, Belarus), it's most failed and failing states (Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan, Congo, Chad, Yemen, Guinea, Bangladesh), not to mention the entire Middle East save Israel.

  6. Actual Cost Average cost per prisoner per day? $58 a day or $21390 per year in Texas Texas—average cost to execute 2.3 million 3X the cost of single cell for 40 years --prisoners spend 20% of term in prison California—would save 114 million per year if death penalty was eliminated—Spent 4 billion already North Carolina—death penalty case costs 2.16 million more than regular murder trial

  7. In Texas Most executions by far in the country 506 Executed in Texas alone since 1976 14 in 2013—rest of nation combined 18 Primary reason? No Sentence of life without parole (Changed 2005) Juveniles max 40 years --uses scare tactics to force juries to convict

  8. The death penalty as a deterrent to murder? Homicide rate in death penalty states is consistently higher than non-death penalty states 2016—25% higher 2012– 21% higher 2006– 40% higher EVERY YEAR SINCE 1990

  9. http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/innocence-list-those-freed-death-rowhttp://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/innocence-list-those-freed-death-row

  10. Race? Race of executed 56% White 35% African American 7% Hispanic Interracial murders with death penalty White defendant/black victim 20 since 1974 Black defendant/white victim 286

  11. Race On Death Row 44% white 42% black 98% of district attorneys are white, >1% black Studies in North Carolina and California If you kill a white person you are 3.5 times more likely to get the death penalty than killing a minority

  12. Exonerations What does it take to be found guilty? How many exonerations since 1973? 164 in 26 states 13 in Texas https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/innocence-list-those-freed-death-row

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