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CJ 241 Nicole Gentzel

Death Penalty Execution. CJ 241 Nicole Gentzel. Issues. Arbitrariness Clemency Cost Deterrence Methods More Information Q & A. Arbitrariness.

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CJ 241 Nicole Gentzel

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  1. Death Penalty Execution CJ 241 Nicole Gentzel

  2. Issues • Arbitrariness • Clemency • Cost • Deterrence • Methods • More Information • Q & A

  3. Arbitrariness • Imagine that speeders who drive yellow cars are ticketed but speeders who drive other colored cars are not. Whether or not the traffic law explicitly singles out speeders in yellow cars, a system that reaches that result in practice would be unfair. In a death penalty system in which approximately 2% of known murderers are sentenced to death, fairness mandates that those few who are sentenced to death should be comparable to others who are sentenced to death – and worse than those who are not. A system in which the sentence of death depends more on the color of the victim or the county that the crime is committed in than on the severity of the offense is also arbitrary. Issues More Information Q & A

  4. Clemency • Since 1976, 273 death row inmates have been granted clemency for humanitarian reasons. Humanitarian reasons include doubts about the defendant's guilt or judgments about the death penalty by the governor. The clemency process varies from state to state, typically involving the governor or a board of advisors, or both. Issues More Information Q & A

  5. Cost • California • Assessment of Costs by Judge Arthur Alarcon and Prof. Paula Mitchell (2011, updated 2012) • The authors concluded that the cost of the death penalty in California has totaled over $4 billion since 1978: • $1.94 billion--Pre-Trial and Trial Costs • $925 million--Automatic Appeals and State Habeas Corpus Petitions • $775 million--Federal Habeas Corpus Appeals • $1 billion--Costs of Incarceration • The authors calculated that, if the Governor commuted the sentences of those remaining on death row to life without parole, it would result in an immediate savings of $170 million per year, with a savings of $5 billion over the next 20 years. Issues More Information Q & A

  6. Deterrence Issues More Information Q & A

  7. Methods • All states and the federal government use lethal injection as their primary method of execution. Some states use a three-drug protocol, others use a single-drug process. The three-drug protocol uses an anesthetic, followed by pancuronium bromide to paralyze the inmate and potassium chloride to stop the inmate's heart. The one-drug protocol uses a lethal dose of an anesthetic. Issues More Information Q & A

  8. More Information • Death Penalty Information Center(http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/home) Issues More Information Q & A

  9. Q & A • ?? • Return to HomePage: • HomePage.html Issues More Information Q & A

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