1. THE DEATH PENALTY IN THE USA

2. A definition of Capital punishment:
Capital punishment or the death penalty is a legal process whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offenses.

3. Capital crimes are…
The US federal government lists 41 capital offenses which are punishable by death. The capital offenses include espionage, treason, and death resulting from aircraft hijacking. However, they mostly consist of various forms of murder such as murder committed during a drug-related drive-by shooting, murder during a kidnapping, murder for hire, and genocide.

4. The Death Penalty in the US (as of Aug. 18, 2016)

5. STATES WITH THE DEATH PENALTY (30)
Alabama Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Florida Georgia Idaho Indiana Kansas Kentucky
Louisiana Mississippi Missouri Montana Nevada New Hampshire North Carolina Ohio Oklahoma Oregon
Pennsylvania South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Virginia Washington Wyoming ALSO - U.S. Gov't - U.S. Military
STATES WITHOUT THE DEATH PENALTY (20) (YEAR ABOLISHED OR OVERTURNED IN PARENTHESES)
Alaska (1957) Connecticut (2012)** Delaware (2016)# Hawaii (1957) Illinois (2011) Iowa (1965) Maine (1887) Maryland (2013) Massachusetts (1984)
Michigan (1846) Minnesota (1911) Nebraska (2015)*** New Jersey (2007) New Mexico (2009)* New York (2007)^^ North Dakota (1973) Rhode Island (1984)^  
Vermont (1964) West Virginia (1965) Wisconsin (1853) ALSO Dist. of Columbia (1981) 
DEATH PENALTY STATES WITH GUBERNATORIAL MORATORIA (4)
Colorado (2013) Oregon (2011)  
Pennsylvania (2015)  
Washington (2014)  

6. The Death Penalty Worldwide
You’ll see that Europe is DP-free except for Belarus. In fact, you can’t join the EU if you have the DP.
Latin America is almost DP-free and much of Africa has stopped using the DP
Light blue = no DP in 10 yrs
Dark blue = abolitionist

7. A little history… 156 people have been exonerated.
Capital punishment was suspended in the United States from 1972 through The court found that the death penalty was being imposed in an unconstitutional manner, on the grounds of cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
However, in the death penalty was reinstated by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Since then 1,438 people have been executed. (as of October 2016)
156 people have been exonerated.

8. The number of executions per state…Which one has the highest number?
-Note: most US death penalty stats are measured from 1976, which marks the modern death penalty era. In 1972 in Furman v. Georgia, the US Supreme Court ruled that, as practiced, the death penalty was cruel and unusual punishment, pointing to its “arbitrary and capricious” nature. In 1976, after states passed new statutes to “fix” these problems in application, the court reinstated the death penalty with the Gregg v. Georgia decision.

9. The US compared to the rest of the world…
Since 1976 (the year the U.S. reinstated the death penalty) an average of 3 countries/year have abolished the death penalty.
75 countries have abolished the death penalty altogether on grounds that it is cruel and unusual punishment.
Japan is the only industrial democracy besides the United States that has the death penalty. In Japan, the executions are carried out by hanging. The majority of death sentences are imposed only in cases of multiple murders.
In the USA the methods used include…

10. LETHAL INJECTION

12. ELECTROCUTION

13. GAS CHAMBER

14. FIRING SQUAD

15. HANGING

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Intro to facts in usa
Boston Bombing
Last Meals
Lethal Injection …audio a little off

17. WHERE DO YOU STAND??