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Capital Punishment

Capital Punishment. Maggie Moran. What is Capital Punishment?. Capital punishment- Process where a person is put to death as a punishment for a crime There are many different forms of capital punishment including: - Lethal injection -Gas chamber -Electrocution - Hanging -Firing squad

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Capital Punishment

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  1. Capital Punishment Maggie Moran

  2. What is Capital Punishment? Capital punishment- Process where a person is put to death as a punishment for a crime There are many different forms of capital punishment including: -Lethal injection -Gas chamber -Electrocution -Hanging -Firing squad To the right are some examples of the follow types of capital punishment

  3. Capital Punishment throughout the World This picture shows the death penalty statists and shows which countries are abusing it more and which countries don’t use it at all.

  4. Ways to Overcome Capital Punishment I found an interesting article on 10 ways to oppose capital punishment Innocence and the death penalty High cost Prolong suffering for the criminals family International views on the death penalty Inadequate Legal Representation Deterrence Arbitrariness in the Application Religious Perspectives Racial Disparities Other Alternatives

  5. Innocence and The Death Penalty Total number of death row exonerations in the USA since 1973: 140 Approximately 62% of all death row exonerees are non-white From 2000-2007, there have been an average of 5 exonerations per year Average number of years between being sentenced to death and exoneration:9.8 years Number of cases in which DNA played a substantial factor in establishing innocence: 17

  6. High cost Using conservative rough projections, the Commission estimates the annual costs of the present (death penalty) system to be $137 million per year.The cost of the present system with reforms recommended by the Commission to ensure a fair process would be $232.7 million per year.The cost of a system in which the number of death-eligible crimes was significantly narrowed would be $130 million per year.The cost of a system which imposes a maximum penalty of lifetime incarceration instead of the death penalty would be $11.5 million per year.

  7. Works Cited "Death Penalty Focus." Death Penalty. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Jan. 2013. "What's New." Death Penalty Information Center. Death Penalty Information Center, 2013. Web. 31 Jan. 2013.

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