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The Death Penalty

The Death Penalty. By: Roselis Amezquita. - Main Points. Moral Values Expenses Innocent and Executed. What is the Death Penalty?. Death Penalty: -Or capital punishment, is the punishment of execution, administered to someone convicted of a capital crime. (Google dictionary).

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The Death Penalty

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  1. The Death Penalty By: Roselis Amezquita

  2. - Main Points Moral Values Expenses Innocent and Executed

  3. What is the Death Penalty? Death Penalty: -Or capital punishment, is the punishment of execution, administered to someone convicted of a capital crime. (Google dictionary)

  4. Top methods of Execution • Lethal Injection • Electrocution • Gas Chamber • Hanging • Firing Squad http://www.prodeathpenalty.com/methods.htm

  5. (All pictures: from http://ourfriendsinprison.weebly.com/execution-methods.html)

  6. Updated October, 2012 • DEATH PENALTY STATES (33) - (Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio,Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wyoming) • NON-DEATH PENALTY STATES (17) - (Alaska, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota,New Jersey, New Mexico,New York, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Vermont,West Virginia, Wisconsin) http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/documents/FactSheet.pdf

  7. Anti- Death Penalty • Execution costs more than life in prison (about$2 million per person) • The innocent may be wrongly executed • Crime rates have not gone down • Life in prison also guarantees no future crimes • Some religions forbid death penalty (Catholic, Presbyterian, Quaker, Amish, Mennonite) • Killing is wrong. • Many Death Row inmates were convicted while being defended by court-appointed lawyers who are often the worst-paid and most-inexperienced and least-skillful lawyers. • Violates international human rights laws • No longer practiced in most sophisticated societies • Promotes killing as an OK solution to a difficult problem • Death sentences are handed down arbitrarily, not in a fair manner http://www.antideathpenalty.org/reasons.html

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