Death Penalty:

The effect in the United States

By

Mamadou Diallo
Robatham
6st Period
March 31, 2016
Outline
I. Introduction:
> What is Capital Punishment
> History
> Crimes that sentence death
a. Trafficking
b. Federal murder
c. Treason
II. Americans and beliefs on Death Penalty
> What Americans say
> Why they believe that
> Votes/Appeals of the people
III. Exonerations of Death Penalty
> Provide examples
> Exonerations rates

a. Increase
b. Decrease
IV. Cost & Debt
> Administering the Death Penalty

a. $200,000 to $300,000
b. $90,000 more per prisoner
c. $4 billion administering the death penalty
> Spending estimate
> bankruptcy
a. tax increases, and laying off vital
Death Penalty

Have one ever wondered the states abolish for capital

punishment? Capital punishment is a way that government with
higher power are legally authorized killing of a criminal for a
serious crime such as drug trafficking, treason, terrorism and
federal murder which many of the inmates that was sentenced
the death penalty charges are imprisoned for but statistics show
that not all inmates convicted were assured that they committed
the crime but still are convicted, death penalty is federally
sanctioned punishment by death. The sentence is referred to as a
death sentence, and crimes that can result in a death penalty are
known as capital crimes or capital offences which are white
columns crimes. But the first established death penalty laws date
was as far back as the eighteenth century B.C. and was also part
of the fourteenth century B.C.'s which made death the only
punishment for all crimes and death sentences were carried out
by such means as crucifixion, drowning, beating to death, burning
alive and many more. But in 1608 Britain influenced America use
of death penalty more than any other country so when European
settlers came to the new world, they brought the capital
punishment then Thomas Jefferson introduced a bill to revise
Virginia's death penalty laws. The bill was for capital punishment
to be used only for the crimes like murder and things like that but

as in the early 1960 it was suggested that the death penalty was
a "cruel and unusual" punishment due to the fact the supreme
court switched it to lethal injection. The late 1980s american
complained that death sentence was unconstitutional.
The statistics Show that 90 million Americans believed that death
penalty is unconstitutional and wants to abolish the death penalty
in the United States the United States Supreme Court suspended
the imposition of the death penalty, finding it wasn't
constitutional because it was disproportionately on outvoted and
the poor. The ban was short the Court approved new death
penalty statutes and government sponsored killings resumed. The
death penalty debate is a heated debate today, many proponents
of the death penalty argue that they think it'll deters criminals
from killing. However, research does not support their claim that
the possibility of receiving the death penalty deters criminals from
committing murder or serious crimes. In fact, studies by the
Death Penalty Information Center show that murder rates tend to
be higher in the South of United States where majority of the
convicted death row inmates are incarcerated. A new poll shows
that nearly two thirds of Floridians now prefer some form of life
sentence than death penalty and nearly three-quarters favor
requiring the jury to unanimously agree on the sentence before
the death penalty can be imposed. A recent survey from
Californians conducted by The Field Poll found that voters are split
between wanting to speed up the execution process 48% and
supporting repeal of the death penalty and replacing it with life
without parole 47%. Support for repeal has grown since 2014. In
2000, Governor George Ryan placed a moratorium on the death
penalty after 13 men had been exonerated from death row since
1977. In 2011, after the state conducted extensive studies
Governor Pat Quinn signed a law that abolished the death penalty.
People claim the jury just wasn't to get the case over with not
thinking of the outcome.
According to statistics records show that there have been 150
exonerations of death row inmates since 1973. for example, the
state of Texas executed Cameron Todd Willingham in 2004 he
was convicted of murdering his three young children by arson at

the family home and despite strong evidence of his innocence,

including forensic evidence. Since 1973, 151 people have been
released from death rows throughout the country due to evidence
of their wrongful convictions. In 2003 alone, 10 wrongfully
convicted defendants were released from death row. (Amnesty,
International USA. 5 Penn Plaza, New York, NY 10001).

But in 2014 a man was originally found guilty for murder and
sexual assault of a female named Karen Tipton in 2002 he was
sentenced to death by the judge overruling the jury's original
consensus. However he was acquitted in 2009 when 256 pages
of withheld evidence were finally revealed. But many American
claim the factors leading to wrongful convictions are Racial
prejudice, Community/political pressure to solve a case, Police
and prosecutorial misconduct, and manly Inadequate legal
representation. Due to the increase of the percentages which is
4.1 of death row inmates that was acquitted 90 million American
think it's the federal court should abolish the law to increase the
percentage and due to the cost of the death penalty is
extraordinary which also increased by the year and civilians
believe that's the money spent on nunsense instead the money
could be spent on improving the criminal justice system such as
increasing public safety or providing resources to help prevent
wrongful convictions
California has spent more than $4 billion administering the death
penalty more than $300 million per person. Maintaining each
death row prisoner costs taxpayers $90,000 more per year than a
prisoner in general population. it costs approximately $200,000 to
$300,000 to convict and sentence an individual to life without the
possibility of parole. Due to the dept Georgia is laying off 900
correctional personnel and New Jersey has had to dismiss 500
police officers it has caused cutbacks in the backbone of the
criminal justice system. The exorbitant costs of capital
punishment are actually making America less safe because badly
needed financial and legal resources are being diverted from
effective crime fighting strategies for example, California had little
money for innovations like community policing, but was managing
to spend an extra $90 million per year on capital punishment,
Texas has over 300 people on death row and is spending an

estimated of $2.3 million per case but its murder rate remains
one of the highest in the United States. The high price of the
death penalty is often mostly effective in those counties
responsible for both the prosecution and defense of capital
defendants a single trial can mean near bankruptcy, tax
increases, and the laying off of vital personnel. But over twothirds of the states and the federal government have installed an
exorbitantly expensive system of capital punishment which has
been a failure by any measure of effectiveness, governments
often bear the brunt of capital punishment costs and are
particularly burdened. Politicians from prosecutors to presidents
choose symbol over substance in their support of the death
penalty. Campaign rhetoric becomes legislative policy with no
thoughts of whether the expense will produce any good for the
people
On Feb 23, 2016 politicians Hillary Clinton came out against
abolishing the death penalty saying I do not favor abolishing to
an inmate that was exonerations of death row also stating I
deeply disagree with the way that too many states are still
implementing the death penalty. she said. So now we know
somebody who made a major error in their campaign, Clintons
embrace of the federal death penalty is related to her husbands
instrumental role in shaping it. It will be very hard for her or even
impossible to separate federal death row. U.S. Senators are urging
the Justice Department to delay new rules that would give
attorney's authority to limit the time death row inmates spend
pursuing appeals before being executed, Outlawed by every
member of the European Union the death penalty was, and is,
viewed in Europe as a throwback to the middle ages. On March
2015 the Supreme Court abolished capital punishment for juvenile
offenders saying that the death penalty for minors is indeed cruel
and unusual punishment. members of the Arizona House and
Senate recently offered apologies to a former Arizona death row
inmate who was freed in 2002 following a DNA test. The apologies
followed standing ovations from members of the state's House
was introduced to the legislators in each chamber, Krone, who
now travels the nation educating people about the problems with
the death penalty, accepted the legislators' apologies and stated,

"It's a recognition from actual elected officials of the wrong that

was done in the name of the State of Arizona." Arizona Senate
Judiciary said that Krone's case shows that corrections are needed
to protect the innocent noting, "This is happening more frequently
than we would like to admit." another legislator, Representative
Phil Lopes, said that we should abolish the death penalty. So
that takes me Is death penalty effective? The answer is no. does
not deter crime at all, and is it expensive, there are innocent
people in prison so let's take the risk of executing an innocent
person and it's not worth it.

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