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 * __Death Penalty Information Center__. 2008 November 13, 2008 .**
 * Death by: Lethal Injection, electricution, gas chamber, hanging, firing squad - RF
 * Three states still have firing squad (Idaho, Oklahoma, Utah) - AH
 * Utah still does firing squad by decision of inmate - AH
 * 28 states: three-drug combination for lethal injection - KS
 * 10 states: non-specified drugs for lethal injection - KS
 * Death penalty laws: established in 18th century - RF
 * 1700's: could get death penalty for cutting down a tree - RF
 * New Jersey: Thiopental sodium and pancuronium bromide for lethal injection - KS
 * Devine, moral, and martial laws: death penalty for stealing grapes, killing chickens, trading w/ indians - RF
 * New York colony institutes dukes law of 1665, striking parents denying true god: all punishable by death - RF
 * Execution from 1608-1976 (Maryland-309, Virginia-1277, Wisconsin-1) - AH
 * Execution from 1976-present (Maryland-5, Texas-420) - AH
 * North Carolina: 3 drugs, only 2 required in statute - KS
 * Maryland: authorizes lethal injection for capital offences occured on/after 3/25/94 - KS
 * Those who committed offence before 3/25/94 may select lethal injection/lethal gas - AH
 * Lethal injection: 35 states plus US Military & Gov't - RF
 * Electricution: 9 states - RF
 * Gas Chamber: 5 states - RF
 * Hanging: 2 states - KS
 * Firing Squad: 2 states - KS
 * US Military: has death penlty (Lethal Injection) - KS
 * First Electric Chair: 1888 - RF
 * Oklahoma (1977): first state to adopt lethal injection - RF
 * Nevada (1924): cyanide gas chamber - AH
 * Firing Squad: 5 shooters/30 caliber rifles w/ single rounds - KS
 * Hanging: primary way of execution until 1890's - AH
 * Firing Squad: strap to chair w/ sandbags surrounding to absorb blood - AH
 * Shooters: option of killing or making death slow/painful - AH
 * Gee Jon: first person executed by lethal gas - RF


 * __Death Penalty Focus__. November 13, 2008 .**
 * California: death penalty costs $137,000,000/ year - KG
 * Replacing death penalty saves $125,000,000/year - KG
 * Money could spent on more efficient violent prevention programs - MK
 * No death penalty: 13 states - KG
 * Fear of death doesnt stop murders from killing again - MK
 * Death penalty: allowed in 34 states - MK
 * State level: death penalty ruled unconstitutional by high courts in 2004 - MK
 * Executions suspended: Illinois - KG
 * North Carolina: Lawmakers are considering bill that would impose moratorium on executions - MK
 * 1967-1968 death penalty was a deterrient in 27 states - KG
 * 1977 Furman vs. Georgia: voids 40 state death penalty statutes/suspends capital punishment - MK
 * Majority of Americans still see execution as ultimate punishment - MK
 * Bills to reinstate death penalty: 12 states - MK
 * 2004: New York death penalty declared unconstitutional - MK
 * AK, DC, HI, Iowa, ME, Mass, MI, MN, ND, RI, VT, WV, WI: No death penalty - KG
 * 14 ammends: cite cruel/unusual punishment - KG
 * 99% of criminals: penniless by time case is up for appeal - MK
 * Death: makes error irreversible - KG
 * Death penalty: never reduced crime - KG
 * Grant McClellan: "motives for death penalty could be used for revenge" - KG
 * Executions: public through most of history - KG
 * Justice system: millions killed because justice system is not working - KG
 * No deterrent effect by using death penalty - KG
 * Average time on death row: 10 years - MK
 * People on death row: watch tv, enjoy lives until executed - MK
 * Can prepare for death by: creating will, death statement - KG
 * Death penalty has never reduced crime rate - KG
 * 22 people: wrongfully executed - KG
 * Repeat murders: eliminated - KG
 * Foreseeable murders: deterred - KG
 * Bible quote: "The murderer shall surely be put to death" - KG
 * White, Deborah. __About.com: US Liberal Politics__. November 14, 2008 .**
 * Capital punishment/death penalty premeditated- planned taking of human life - MK
 * Death penalty: ultimate denial of human rights - MK
 * No executions occured in US (1967-1976) - MK
 * 1972: supreme court nullified death penalty - KS
 * Another supreme court ruling: death penalty is constitutional - MK
 * Crimes w/ death penalty: vary (treason, murder, theft) - MK
 * 2004: 3797 executions/25 countries - MK
 * Capital punishment: 36 states - MK
 * Since 1976: 1004 felons executed in US - KS
 * States in US territories with no current death penalty statute: AK, HI, Iowa, KS, ME, MA, MI, MN, NY, ND, RI, VT, WV, WI, DC, Puerto Rico - MK
 * Messerli, Joe. __Death Penalty Pro's & Con's__. 9/08/2008 November 14, 2008 .**
 * Pro: closure to victims family who are suffering - AH
 * Pro: another form of crime deterrent - AH
 * Pro: justice better surved - AH
 * Pro: parole/escapes give chance to kill again - AH
 * Con: financial costs - KS
 * Con: endless appeals - KS
 * Con: give other countries more favorable image of America - AH
 * Con: innocent men/women put to death - AH
 * Con: doesn't bring victim back - KS
 * Con: some jury members reluctant to put to death - KS
 * Con: mentally ill patients put to death - AH
 * Con: why kill someone who killed someone to show killing is wrong - AH
 * Pro: provides deterrent for prisners w/ life sentence - AH


 * __Amnesty International USA: Death Penalty Cost__. 2008 November 14, 2008 www.amnestyusa.org/death-penalty-facts/death-penalty-costs/page.do?id=1101084.**
 * Death penalty cost: 1.26 million dollars - RF
 * Non-death penalty cost: 740 thousand dollars - RF
 * Death penalty case: 70% more money than non-death penalty case - KS
 * Maryland: $3,000,000 to put one to death - RF
 * California: $137,000,000/year for death penalty - RF
 * Death penalty/race: (Hispanic-5%) - KS
 * African American-14% - RF
 * White-79% - RF
 * Other-2% - RF
 * 47% of America: prefer death penalty - KG
 * 1995: death sentances at highest - KS


 * __Virginia Death Penalty Infomation__. November 14, 2008 .**
 * Eligible: commit murder under 1 or more circumstances - KS
 * 1st guilty: 2nd trial is held/determine if crime is vile - KS
 * Appeals: if defendant raises particular issue at trial, it cant be raised in federal court later - KG
 * Introduced in Virginia: early 1600's (hanging George Kendall) - KG
 * Virginia: carried out 1300 executions in history - KG
 * Virginia: executed more women/young children than any other state - KS
 * February 1951: Virginia executed 8 men in 72 hrs - KG
 * Virginia record: 17 executions it 1909 - KG
 * Injection: chair with metal container under seat - KG
 * Turn 3 keys in control room to start - KS
 * Death occurs in 6-18 minutes - KG
 * Heart moniter attached to inmate read by staff in control room - KG
 * 1998: lethal injection eliminated - KS
 * Cost: 5 to 6 times more than life imprisonment - KG
 * Murder rates lower/states with no death penalty - KG
 * 75 death row inmates spent 20 years on the Row-KG
 * Capital punishment is applied to a higher percentage of minorities than whites. -MK
 * $2 million in legal fees to try a death penalty case-KG
 * 4 times higher than comparable murder trials.-MK
 * $700,000 in legal fees-KG
 * $1.2 million in execution costs.-KG
 * 1973 -1998, Florida spent $57 million on 18 executions-KG
 * 400 innocent people convicted of capital crimes not commit, 23 executed -KG
 * Supreme Court ruled the death penalty was constitutional-KG
 * Ninety of the 722 murderers executed in the US volunteere-KG
 * 70% Public approval of the death penalty-KG
 * 36 STATES WITH -KG
 * 14 STATES WITHOUT- KG
 * debate in the U.S. is dominated by the fraudulent voice of the anti-death penalty movement.-KG
 * 55 women on death row-KG


 * Sharp, Dudley. __Death Penalty and Sentencing Information__. 10/1/97 November 14, 2008 .**
 * Imposition of death penalty/very rare - AH
 * Since 1967- 1 execution/1600 murders (.06%) - AH
 * 1967-1996: 560,000/358 executions - AH
 * 5900 people: sentenced to death (358 executed from (1973-96) (.2%) - AH
 * 56 executed in 1995 (Record for modern death penalty) represented 1.8% of those on death row - KS
 * Some equate American death penalty w/ nazi holocaust - AH
 * Opponants see no moral distinction, slaughter of 12 million innocent men/children/women - KS
 * 9-15% on death row, at least 1 additional murder - KS
 * Some claim death penalty is barbaric act - AH
 * 6% young adults parolled in 1978 having been convicted/murder arrested again for murder within 6 yrs. of release - AH
 * women comprise 1.5% death row population. -KG
 * 40 women have been executed in the United States, including 11 since 1976-KG
 * 568 documented instances ,female executions.-AH
 * female offenders constitute about 2.8% of all American executions-AH
 * Female executions have become increasingly rare-KG
 * Women about 1 in 10 murder arrest -AH


 * __North Carolina Department of Correction__. November 14, 2008 .**
 * 1998: North Carolina made lethal injection only method of execution - KG
 * Inmate covered with sheet after death - KS
 * Inmate given opportunity to speak/pray with chaplain - KS
 * Lethal injection is slowest of execution methods - KG
 * First syringes: no less than 3000 mg. sodium pentothal - KG
 * Second syringes: saline (flush IV line clean) - KG
 * Third syringes: no less than 40 mg. pancuronium bromide - KG
 * Fourth syringes: no less than 160 millequivelents of pottasium chloride - KG
 * Fifth syringes: saline (flush IV line clean) - KG
 * Flat line EKG moniter for five minutes: warden pronounces inmate dead - KS
 * Witnesses escorted to elevators/body released to medical examiner - KS
 * Administration of death penalty: since Colonial America - KS
 * 1910: power to execute: taken away from gov't; assumed by state - KS
 * 1910-1961: state executed another 361 persons - KG
 * 120 inmates: sentences vacated, new trials, many re-sentenced to life in prison - KS
 * 1998: General Assembly eliminated lethal gas execution - KG
 * 3 methods of execution (all at Central Prison in Raleigh) - KG
 * First 28 years: electric chair - KS
 * 1936: first gas chamber - KS
 * 1983: option of lethal injection/gas chamber - KS
 * 1998: lethal injection only - KS
 * Over 1000 sent to death row (since 1910) - KG
 * Central Prison: men housed in cellblocks (Unit III) - KG
 * Television in dayroom - KG
 * Inmates assigned incentive wage jobs (clothes house, barber, janitor) - KS
 * 18th Century BC, the Code of King Hammurabi of Babylon allowed the death penalty for 25 crimes, not included murder.-KG
 * March 2005 119 innocent people released from death rows across the country since 1973-KG
 * Less than 1% of all murderers are condemned to death-KS
 * 2% of death row inmates are executed -KG
 * Over 113 people death row have been exonerated since 1973-KS
 * Reversed 68% of the death penalty convictions-KG
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