March 19, 2007

Death Penalty Paper

Hi

I am doing my paper on the Death Penalty and would like to post the following on the blog for feed back inregards to this issue. I want to use the answers given by the class in to support the part of paper that relates to the area that there is a lack of understanding knowledge about the death penalty.
I wanted to make sure it was okay first. I downloaded this from deathpenaltyinfo.org

1
The death penalty saves taxpayers money because it is cheaper to execute someone than to keep them in prison for the rest of their life.
2
Since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, more black people have been executed than white people.
3
After the Supreme Court allowed the death penalty to resume in 1976, the first person to be executed was Gary Gilmore in Utah by a firing squad.
4
Since the death penalty was reinstated in the U.S., very few people have been released from death row because they were innocent.
5
In most states with the death penalty, you can be executed even if you suffer from mental illness.
6
There are some states in the U.S. where you cannot receive the death penalty for any crime.
7
Hanging has not been used as a method of execution in the United States for over 30 years.
8
When the police chiefs of the U.S. were polled on their views about ways to lower the crime rate, only 1% named the death penalty as their top priority in reducing violent crime.
9
No woman has been executed in the U.S. for over 25 years.
10
Those who commit a crime when they are under 18 years of age are ineligible for the death penalty in the U.S.


Pamela

1 comment:

Gina Marie said...

I thought u had a questionaire to fill out...i recieved something on my yahoo account i did answer it for u....hope recieved it and hope it did some good