1. Death Penalty

2. Executions In 2005, 60 inmates were executed (43 in 2011) Of persons executed in 2005: -- 41 were white -- 19 were black

3. Fifty-nine men and one woman were executed in 2005. Lethal injection accounted for all of the executions.

4. Prisoners Under Death Sentence Year end 2004, 36 States and the Federal prison system held 3,314 prisoners

5. Of persons under sentence of death in 2004: -- 1,850 were white -- 1,390 were black -- 28 were American Indian -- 32 were Asian -- 14 were of unknown race

6. 52 women were under a sentence of death at yearend 2004. The ave. age at time of arrest was 28; 2% of inmates were age 17 or younger at the time of arrest. At year end 2004, the youngest inmate under sentence of death was 18; the oldest was 89.

7. Pennsylvania Reenacted- 1978 First- 1995 Currently- 235 on Death Row 3 executed

8. PA History 1860-1912: hanging 1913-1989: electrocution present: lethal injection

9. States w/o Death Penalty Alaska Hawaii Iowa Maine Massachusetts Michigan DC Minnesota North Dakota Rhode Island Vermont West Virginia Wisconsin

10. Methods Hangings The last hanging was January 25, 1996 in Delaware primary method until 1890’s

11. Firing Squad still remains a method of execution in Utah & Idaho Inmate chooses Last execution 1996

12. Electrocution NY made 1 st chair A jolt of between 500 and 2000 volts, which lasts for about 30 seconds

13. ...the prisoner's eyeballs sometimes pop out and rest on [his] cheeks. The prisoner often defecates, urinates, and vomits blood and drool. The body turns bright red as its temperature rises, and the prisoner's flesh swells and his skin stretches to the point of breaking. Sometimes the prisoner catches fire....Witnesses hear a loud and sustained sound like bacon frying, and the sickly sweet smell of burning flesh permeates the chamber. (Ecenbarger, 1994)

14. Gas Chamber use of cyanide gas was introduced as Nevada sought a more humane way of executing its inmates

15. 1977, Oklahoma became the first state to adopt lethal injection Today, 37 of the 38 states that have the death penalty use this method

16. Deterrence 84% of criminologists do not feel the death penalty stops murders. 64% support death penalty (down from 80%) US police chiefs believe the death penalty is an effective enforcement tool.

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