The Death Penalty
Restraining chair used in lethal injections.
What is the history of the death penalty?
Is the death penalty moral?
Is the death penalty humane?
Does the death penalty deter crime?
What countries use the death penalty?
Which states in the US use the death penalty?
What crimes warrant the death penalty?
How many people are on death row?
Is it cheaper to jail or execute a criminal?
Has an innocent ever been executed?
What facts matter to you in deciding whether or not you are for/against the death penalty?
Is the death penalty moral?
Is the death penalty humane?
Does the death penalty deter crime?
What countries use the death penalty?
Which states in the US use the death penalty?
What crimes warrant the death penalty?
How many people are on death row?
Is it cheaper to jail or execute a criminal?
Has an innocent ever been executed?
What facts matter to you in deciding whether or not you are for/against the death penalty?
A huge crowd of over 15, 000 people gathers around a scaffold to witness the public hanging of 22-year old Rainey Bethea August 14, 1936 in Owensboro, Kentucky. Public outrage over the manner of execution made Bethea's death the last public hanging in the country. (Credit: Getty Images/Newsmakers)
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Anti-Death Penalty Articles
Against the American System of Capital Punishment The New Case Against the Death Penalty |
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