1. Death Penalty
By: Gavin Johnson

2. Time line 18 century B.C King Hammurabi of Babylon.
Death was the punishment for 25 crimes.

3. Time Line 1608- James town, Captain George Kendall was hung.
1612 Virginia Governor included minor crimes under the penalty.

4. Time Line Late 1700's Abolitionist movement starts.
First time penalty is question.
Writings of…
On Crimes and Punishment

5. Time Line 1800's and 1900's Many different views.
1834 Pennsylvanian first to move executions out of public eye.
1846 Michigan first to abolish death penalty.
Countries soon followed.

6. World and the death Penalty

7. Time Line 1907 to 1917 six states outlaw penalty Three limit its use.
After WWI five of the states reinstated the penalty.

8. Time Line

9. Recent Developments 1977 Coke v. Georgia
Mental illness and the Penalty
- Ford v. Wainwright.
1980's the juveniles held the spot light with the death penalty.
Roper v. Simmons.

10. Recent Developments 1988- federal death penalty was enacted.
1994- Clinton signed the Violent Crime control and Law enforcement Act.
This act add 60 crimes to be punished under the penalty.
3 don't involve murder.

11. Federal Crimes Murder related to the smuggling of aliens.
Destruction of aircraft, motor vehicles, or related facilities resulting in death.
Murder committed during a drug-related drive-by shooting.
Murder committed at an airport serving international civil aviation.
Retaliatory murder of a member of the immediate family of law enforcement officials.
Civil rights offenses resulting in death.
Murder of a member of Congress, an important executive official, or a Supreme Court Justice.
Espionage.
Death resulting from offenses involving transportation of explosives, destruction of government property, or destruction of property related to foreign or interstate commerce.
Murder committed by the use of a firearm during a crime of violence or a drug-trafficking crime.
Murder committed in a Federal Government facility.
Genocide.
First-degree murder.
Murder of a Federal judge or law enforcement official.
Murder of a foreign official.
Murder by a Federal prisoner.
Murder of a U.S. national in a foreign country.
Murder by an escaped Federal prisoner already sentenced to life imprisonment.
Murder of a State or local law enforcement official or other person aiding in a Federal investigation; murder of a State correctional officer.
Murder during a kidnapping.
Murder during a hostage taking.
Murder of a court officer or juror.
Murder with the intent of preventing testimony by a witness, victim, or informant.
Retaliatory murder of a witness, victim, or informant.
Mailing of injurious articles with intent to kill or resulting in death.
Assassination or kidnapping resulting in the death of the President or Vice President.
Murder for hire.
Murder involved in a racketeering offense.
Willful wrecking of a train resulting in death.
Bank-robbery-related murder or kidnapping.
Murder related to a carjacking.
Murder related to rape or child molestation.
Murder related to sexual exploitation of children.
Murder committed during an offense against maritime navigation.
Murder committed during an offense against a maritime fixed platform.
Terrorist murder of a U.S. national in another country.
Murder by the use of a weapon of mass destruction.
Murder involving torture.
Treason.
Murder related to a continuing criminal enterprise or related murder of a Federal, State, or local law enforcement officer.
Death resulting from aircraft hijacking.

12. Recent Developments After the Oklahoma City Bombings Clinton signed.
Anti-terrorism and Effective Death Penalty of

13. Anti-terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Affect
Restriction in the review of Federal courts.
Tighter filling deadlines
Limiting opportunity for evidentiary hearings.
One Hebeas Corpus hearing.

14. Types of Execution Lethal Injection- 1118 prisoners executed.
Electrocution-157 executed.
Gas Chamber- 11 executed.
Hanging- 3 executed.
Firing squad- 3 executed.

15. Case against the Penalty
Possibility of killing an innocent person.
Denial of human rights.
Cost
Racial bias
No proof its a crime deterrent.

16. Killing of an Innocent Person
Since 1973 over 130 people have been released.
DNA evidence has been a major part.

17. Innocent people by State
Source: Death Penalty Information Center

18. Denial of Human Rights
1948 UN adopted Universal Delectation of Human Rights.
At first was not meant to abolish only limit the penalty.

19. Denial of Human Rights Two basic rights. The right to live
The right not to be tortured.

20. Cost In California a penalty case can run 1 million.
Same case with out the Penalty is up to 20 times less.
In California it is twice as expensive to house an inmate on death row.
Source: Death Penalty Information Center

21. Cost Since 1978 California has spent 4 billion.
Only executed 13 people.
In Maryland average case cost 3 million.
Form 1978 to 1999 has cost 186 million.
Only executed five.
Source: Death Penalty Information Center

22. Cost In Kansas a Penalty case is up to 70% more.
For Florida it is over 51 million.
In Texas it is 3 times higher to punish.
Source: Death Penalty Information Center

23. Racial Bias
In Louisiana the odd of a death penalty are 97% higher if the victim was white.
Over 75% of murder cases resulting in an execution the victims were white.
Source: Death Penalty Information Center

24. Race of Defendants Executed.% % % %

25. Race of Victims Source: Death Penalty Information Center
76%
15% 6% 3%

26. Executions by Region Execution rates are highest in the south. 1061
590
150
Source: Death Penalty Information Center

27. Murder Rates Murder Rates highest in South. 5.2 4.8
Source: Death Penalty Information Center

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29. Case for the Death Penalty
Deters crime
Eye for an Eye
Only for the most heinous crimes

30. Deterrent of Crime This is a weak point for the death penalty.
Many studies done with many different results.
Not reliable results.
Needs to be used more often to have an affect.

31. Eye for an Eye Justice being served. Helps with closure.
When you kill you forfit your life.

32. My stand Before I was for the death penalty.
Now it should only be used for most heinous crimes.
Racial bias
Cost is to high.
Risk of executing an innocent person.
Need to have 100% certainty

33. Possible compromises
In capital cases take sentencing out of the jury's hands.
Four Judges.
First Judge would be the trial judge.
Other three would decide sentencing.
All must agree to Death Penalty.

34. Possible Compromises Limit death penalty to most heinous cases.
Where the accused feels no remorse.
Use the four Judge system.
Opposition would be isn't every murder heinous.

35. Discussion 1. What are some flaws in the death penalty now?
2. How can we make sure the innocent people aren't executed?
3. Why does it cost so much?
4. What crimes would justify the death penalty?
5. Is the death penalty cruel and unusual punishment?

36. Discussion 6. Would public executions be more of a deterrent?
7. Does an eye for an eye make our society seem barbaric?