The Death Penalty

By: Roselis Amezquita

- Main Points

• Moral Values• Expenses• Innocent and Executed

What is the Death Penalty?

Death Penalty:-Or capital punishment, is the punishment of

execution, administered to someone convicted of a capital crime. (Google

dictionary)

Top methods of Execution

1. Lethal Injection2. Electrocution3. Gas Chamber4. Hanging5. Firing Squad

http://www.prodeathpenalty.com/methods.htm

(All pictures: from http://ourfriendsinprison.weeb

ly.com/execution-methods.html)

Updated October, 2012

• DEATH PENALTY STATES (33)

- (Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida Georgia, Idaho, Indiana,

Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri,

Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North

Carolina, Ohio,Oklahoma, Oregon,

Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas,

Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wyoming)

• NON-DEATH PENALTY STATES (17) - (Alaska, Connecticut,

Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota,

New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Vermont,

West Virginia, Wisconsin)

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/documents/FactSheet.pdf

Anti- Death Penalty• Execution costs more than life in prison (about$2 million per person)• The innocent may be wrongly executed• Crime rates have not gone down• Life in prison also guarantees no future crimes• Some religions forbid death penalty (Catholic, Presbyterian, Quaker,

Amish, Mennonite)• Killing is wrong.• Many Death Row inmates were convicted while being defended by

court-appointed lawyers who are often the worst-paid and most-inexperienced and least-skillful lawyers.

• Violates international human rights laws• No longer practiced in most sophisticated societies• Promotes killing as an OK solution to a difficult problem• Death sentences are handed down arbitrarily, not in a fair manner http://www.antideathpenalty.org/reasons.html