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                                                         The Death Penalty

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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?
 

Helpful links for this unit ...
U.S. Criminal Justice Timeline
Bureau of Justice Statistics
National Archive of Criminal Justice Data
Federal Bureau of Prisons
Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice: Death Row Statistics
Death Penalty Information Center
Amnesty International
ACLU
Deathpenaltycurriculum.org

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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)
Pro-Death Penalty Articles
The Case For Execution
The Ultimate Punishment: A Defense
Anti-Death Penalty Articles
Against the American System of Capital Punishment
The New Case Against the Death Penalty
Other Pertinent Articles
Why a Life for a Life Is Justice in the US
Opposing views of Supreme Court Justices
Hanging Still Haunts Town 75 Years Later
U.S. Out of Step with the World on Death Penalty
Assignments:
  • Debate scheduled for 10/22 - McKenna/Alyssa (pro) v. Kia/Sage (con)