Red+Beard+(Pro+Death+Penalty)

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 * 1) Opponents of the death penalty are complaining that the sentencing and trials are so poor that they are executing innocent people. (JL)
 * 2) Punishment procedures were changed throughout both 19th and 20th century. (JL)
 * 3) It costs more to put people to death then to keep them alive in jail. (KD)
 * 4) Supreme Court upheld re-enacted death penalty laws.(DJ)

"Death Penalty information Center ". DPIC. 4/32/09 [].
 * 1) Some say it violates the “cruel and unusual” clause of the bill of rights. (KD)
 * 2) he appeals system turns our courts attention to things that have already been decided(DJ)
 * 3) The death penalty is a policy of the past and society has to move past it (DJ)
 * 4) you cannot prove that killing is wrong by killing more people(JL)
 * 5) A life in a cage is worse then a quick death(JL)
 * 6) Would increase our international view(KD)
 * 7) people that do not want blood on their hands would not convict someone of a crime that would mean the death penalty(KD)
 * 8) The family of the accused has to watch their own blood be executed(DJ)
 * 9) innocent people could receive capital punishment(DJ)
 * 10) Mentally ill patients may be put to death.(JL)
 * 11) <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msoansilanguage: EN-USmso-fareast-font-family;">It makes people feel sorry for people that commits evil crimes and are caught(JL)
 * 12) <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msoansilanguage: EN-USmso-fareast-font-family;">It leads to another death not the resurrection of the innocent victim (KD)
 * 13) <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msoansilanguage: EN-USmso-fareast-font-family;">PROS It settles the family of the victim to see the guilty party die(KD)
 * 14) <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msoansilanguage: EN-USmso-fareast-font-family;">Death is a large crime deterrent (DJ)
 * 15) <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msoansilanguage: EN-USmso-fareast-font-family;">Justice is truly served (DJ)
 * 16) <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msoansilanguage: EN-USmso-fareast-font-family;">The system we have now is softer on the accused then the victims families (JL)
 * 17) <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msoansilanguage: EN-USmso-fareast-font-family;">Keeps people already serving life sentences in line in prison (JL)
 * 18) <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msoansilanguage: EN-USmso-fareast-font-family;">Forensics has become so efficient that the likelihood that the wrong person is accused is very low(KD)
 * 19) <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msoansilanguage: EN-USmso-fareast-font-family;">There is always the appeal process to save the one that are innocent but accused (KD)
 * 20) <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msoansilanguage: EN-USmso-fareast-font-family;">It is another aspect to the court system that could lead to plea bargains and take less cases to trail.(DJ)
 * 1) In 1995 Hai Hai Vuong (male 40 yrs) murdered 2 other Asians and was executed by means of lethal injection(DJ)
 * 2) In 1997 Aua Lauti (male 43) murdered another asian and was executed by means of lethal injection(JL)
 * 3) In 1998 Tuan Nguyen (Male 39) murdered three white people and was executed by means of lethal injection(JL)
 * 4) In 1999 Jaturun Siripongs (male 43) murdered two asian people and was executed by means of lethal injection(KD)
 * 5) In 2004 Hung Thanh Le (male 37) murdered another asian and was executed bu means of lethal injection(KD)

"Death Penalty Facts." 2009. Amnesty International USA. 23 April, 2009 [].
 * 1) Since 1977, over 1,100 people have been executed in the U.S.; there are currently around 3,300 men and women on death row across the country.(DJ)

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msoansilanguage: EN-USmso-fareast-font-family;"> "Gallup ". Gallup. 4/28/09 [].
 * 1) 13% of people were in favor for the death of mentally retareded.(DJ)
 * 2) Gallup polling has found whites to be more supportive than blacks of the death penalty, by an average of nearly 30 points(JL)
 * 3) 65% of people support death penalty for someone convicted of murder, 31% oppose it, and 4% have no opinion(JL)
 * 4) Blacks favor the penalty by 40%, and almost 60% disagree with it.(KD)

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 * 1) Texas - TX - For deathpenalty(KD)
 * 2) # execusions since 1976- 423(DJ)
 * 3) # execusions before 1976- 755(DJ)
 * 4) current death row population- 373(JL)
 * 5) women in death row-9(JL)
 * 6) started to use death penatly again-Jan 1, 1974(KD)
 * 7) muder rate (per 100,000)- 5.9(KD)
 * 8) prisioners freed from death row- 9(DJ)
 * 9) method- injection(DJ)
 * 10) determined by jury(JL)
 * 11) location- Livingston, Gatesville(women)(JL)
 * 12) Maryland - MD - For deathpenalty(KD)
 * 13) # execusions since 1976- 5(KD)
 * 14) # execusions before 1976- 309(DJ)
 * 15) current death row population- 6(DJ)
 * 16) women in death row- 0(JL)
 * 17) started to use death penatly again- July 1, 1975(JL)
 * 18) muder rate (per 100,000)- 9.7(KD)
 * 19) prisioners freed from death row- 1(KD)
 * 20) method-Injection / Choice of Gas Chamber if sentenced before 3/11/94(DJ)
 * 21) determined by jury(DJ)
 * 22) location- Baltimore(JL)
 * 23) 14 states in the U.S are against it, but if you include D.C it is 15(JL)
 * 24) 36 states in the U.S are in favor of the penalty(KD)
 * 1) 10 out of 10 states in the U.S do not have any capital punishment(KD)
 * 2) As of August 2000, 38 states are allowed to do the death penalty (DJ)
 * 3) Lethal injection is used in 36 states, and is considered the most humane method.(DJ)
 * 4) Having several methods of punishment, criminal may chose one that they prefer(JL)
 * 5) Critics say that electric chair is cruel and an unusal punishment.(JL)
 * 6) Recent convicts that were freed from death row proves that the system is working accurately(KD)
 * 7) Number of people that have been placed on death row has increased since the reinstatement of the penalty.(KD)
 * 8) If the death penalty is consititional, court declared that it must be applied fair.(DJ)
 * 9) "Wanton and freakish pattern of use" violated the 14th amendment(DJ)
 * 10) Inconsistency with executions violated the 8th amendment(JL)
 * 1) Mary Johnson hung for witchcraft 1649(JL)
 * 2) Caesar Morin white male burned for a slave revolt in 1712(KD)
 * 3) Aberaham Doan hanged in chains (gibbet) for gang activities and guerilla tactics in 1788, Pennsylvania(KD)
 * 4) Charles Harris Hung in chains for piracy in Rhode Island in 1723.(DJ)
 * 1) executions save lives, 3 to 18 murders are prevented(DJ)
 * 2) study finding that each execution saves five lives(JL)
 * 3) The Supreme Court now appears to have once again imposed a moratorium on executions as it considers how to assess the constitutionality of lethal injections(JL)
 * 4) Only about one in 300 homicides results in an execution(KD)
 * 5) “Capital punishment is very expensive if you choose to spend money on capital punishment you are choosing not to spend it somewhere else, like policing(KD)
 * 6) devoting money to crime prevention would prevent more murders than whatever number, if any, an execution would deter.(DJ)
 * 7) more than 16,000 homicides but only 153 death sentences and 65 executions(DJ)
 * 8) Canada has executed no one since 1962. Yet the murder rates in the United States and Canada have moved in same diirection since then, including before, during and after the four-year death penalty(JL)
 * 1) Critics say that juveniles brains are not developed yet andless mature than adults, they should not be punished as adults.(JL)
 * 2) Supporters of juvenile death penalty say that they should be punished on the severity of the crime.(KD)
 * 3) Young people need to understand that murders are wrong and the use of death penalty should scare them.(KD)
 * 4) After the first 16 year old boy was put on death row and killed, the supreme court established the minimum age is 16.(DJ)
 * 5) Since 1976, 22 juvenile offenders have been executed(DJ)
 * 6) 20 out of the 38 states that allow death penalty, permit executions for juveniles.(JL)
 * 7) Texas, Virginia and Oklahoma are held responsible for 18 juvenile executions(JL)
 * 8) In January 2004, the Supreme Court accepted a case, //Roper v. Simmons//, in which it will once again consider the constitutionality of juvenile executions.(KD)
 * 9) The case concerns Christopher Simmons, who was sentenced to death for killing a woman during a burglary in 1993, when he was 17.(KD)
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">The Bible requires the death penalty  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> for a wide variety of crimes, practicing evil sourcery, adultery, homosexual behavior, doing work on Saturday and murder(DJ)
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Many people feel that killing convicted murderers will satisfy their need for justice and or vengence(DJ)
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> People feel that executing criminals will lower the and scare the criminals from killing(JL)
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> certain crimes are so bad and brutal that executing the criminal is the only reasonable response(JL)
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> "//It is by exacting the highest penalty for the taking of human life that we affirm the highest value of human life.//" (Edward Koch)(KD)
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">costs of the exectuted prisioner ends when they are buried(KD)
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> cost to the state paying for multiple appeals is generally greater than the cost of imprisoning an inmate(DJ)
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Once a convicted murderer is executed, there is no chance that he will break out of jail and kill or injure someone(DJ)
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Many convicted murderers are later found innocent, and have been pardoned(JL)
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> at least 350 people between 1900 were found guilty after being put to death(JL)
 * 9) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">some believe that killing a murderer does nothing because it doesnt bring the loved one back to life and only kills another human(KD)