Transcript The Death Penalty - Minutemancd's Blog

Sarah Bibbey
September 28, 2011
 There
are 34 states that have the Death
Penalty.
 Also the U.S. Gov’t , and U.S. Military have
the Death Penalty.
 16 states do not have the Death Penalty.
 Also the Dist. of Columbia does not have the
Death Penalty.
Total Number of Death Row Inmates as of
January 1, 2011: was 3,251.
 The 3 highest states with inmates on Death Row
are California with 721, Florida with 398, and
Texas with 321.
 The lowest states were Montana with 2, New
Mexico with 2, Wyoming with 1, and New
Hampshire with 1.

 It
must be a felony in a state that uses the
death penalty.
 Mostly
used with serial killers.
 Murder
is the most common crime punished
by death, but most of the cases are just
sentenced to life in prison.
 The
electric chair
 Lethal injection
 Gas Chamber
 Hanging
 Firing squad
 Guillotine
 In
2007 New Jersey became the first state to
repeal the death penalty in the modern
system of capital punishment.
 Followed by New Mexico in 2009.
 The last state to stop using the Death Penalty
was Illinois in 2011.
In 1996, those states which had the death
penalty had an average murder rate of 7.1 per
100,000 population; those states which do not
execute people had a homicide rate of 3.6.
 From 1976 to 1996, the number of executions
per year in the United States has increased from
0 to just under 60. The homicide rate per
100,000 population has remained constant at
just under 10.
 67% of U.S. police chiefs do not believe that the
death penalty significantly reduces the numbers
of murders.


RACE: Black = 26; White = 23; Latino = 8;
Native American = 1
GENDER: Males = 56; Females = 2
T0TAL = 58
 Since the reinstatement of the federal death
penalty in 1988, 69 defendants have been
sentenced to death of whom 3 have been
executed and 8 have had their death sentence
removed. Three other defendants have had a
jury recommendation death, but no death
sentence by the judge. Two of those 3 have now
received lesser sentences. The third (John
Wayne Johnson) has not been sentenced and is
not on death row.

Manny Babbitt was executed on May 4, 1999 in California.
Babbitt served in the Vietnam War and suffered from PostTraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) after returning home. He
said he did not remember killing 78-year-old Leah
Schendel.

Alexander Williams, Georgia, 2002
Granted by Gov. Roy Barnes. The Board of Pardons and
Paroles voted to commute Williams's sentence to life
without parole because he suffered from mental illness
and was a juvenile at the time of the crime.

An emerging death penalty issue was identified by the
American Bar Association in 2006 when it unanimously
passed a resolution calling for an exemption from the
death penalty for people whose severe mental illness may
have led to there crime.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dlH90ve
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My opinion of the Death Penalty is that it can be useful but
it will hurt the family of whoever is put to death. It can
also be bad if they convict the wrong person but don’t find
out until after they have been executed. I think that only
serial killers should be put to death. Also, I think that if a
person with a mental disability kills someone, they should
have a fair trial but not be sentenced to death unless they
tortured, raped or killed multiple people. I mostly feel
that they should repeal the Death Penalty.
 YouTube
 Wikipedia
 Death
Penalty Info. com