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Death penalty

Death penalty. a.k.a. Capital Punishment. History of Death Penalty. Videos. Death By Firing Squad Stoning: More than a death penalty?. Beltway Snipers. Videos. Timothy McVeigh Execution. Types Used. Lethal Injection Firing Squad Gas Chamber Electrocution Hanging. Pros. Costs

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Death penalty

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  1. Death penalty a.k.a. Capital Punishment

  2. History of Death Penalty

  3. Videos • Death By Firing Squad • Stoning: More than a death penalty?

  4. Beltway Snipers

  5. Videos • Timothy McVeigh Execution

  6. Types Used • Lethal Injection • Firing Squad • Gas Chamber • Electrocution • Hanging

  7. Pros • Costs • Morality • Deterrence • Retribution • Costs

  8. Cons • Innocence • According to the ACLU, the death penalty is the ultimate denial of civil liberties. To date, 139 inmates were found to be innocent and released from death row. • Mental illness • The ACLU Capital Punishment Project is committed to challenging the application of the death penalty to the seriously mentally ill. It violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. • Quality of counsel • In 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court indicated in Roper v. Simmons that the death penalty must be reserved for "the worst of the worst," i.e. offenders who commit "the most serious crimes and whose extreme culpability makes them the most deserving of execution." Quality of counsel, however, is a far better predictor of who gets sentenced to death and ultimately executed. • Unequal justice • The ACLU opposes capital punishment as a clear violation of the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishments. One reason the death penalty presents such a clear Eighth Amendment violation is that it is routinely imposed based on wholly improper factors, such as race, class, venue, the quality of counsel, whether the defendant is a resident of or a visitor to the jurisdiction in which the case is tried. Unequal justice is no justice at all. http://www.aclu.org/

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