PRESENTED BY: JORDAN

WHAT IS A DEATH PENALTY?

ARE THERE DIFFERENT TYPES?

• electrocution
• lethal injection
• Firing Squad
• Gas chamber

HOW IS electrocution USED

• person is strapped to a specially built wooden chair
• electrocuted through electrodes placed on the head and legs
• alternating current would be passed through the individual's body
• order to cause fatal damage to the internal organs

IS ELECTROCUTION STILL USED TODAY?

• As of 2013, Yes.
• States such as Alabama, Florida, Kentucky
• Still use this as an option for death penalty

HOW IS LETHAL INJECTION USED?

• Lethal injection involves injecting chemicals into the veins
• for the express purpose of causing immediate death.
• It kills the person by first putting the person to sleep
• then stopping the breathing and heart, in that order.

IS LETHAL INJECTION STILL USED TODAY?

• As of Jan 2014, Yes.
• Florida, Texas and Ohio use it

HOW IS FIRING SQUAD USED?

• firing squad involves being shot to death by armed individuals
• particularly common in the military and in times of war.
• all members of the group are instructed to fire simultaneously,

IS IT STILL USED TODAY?

• Execution by shooting is a fairly old practice.
• But yes, Oklahoma and Utah still use it

HOW IS A GAS CHAMBER USED?

• whereby one is placed in a chamber filled with poisonous gas
• Breathes it in and eventually dies
• Commonly used during the holocoustt

IS IT STILL USED TODAY?

• Yes but rarely used
• Authorize lethal gas if lethal injection cannot be administered
• Arizona, California, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri and Wyoming
• Still use this death penalty as secondary resort.

HOW LONG DOES ONE WAIT ON DEATH ROW?

• In 2010, a death row inmate waited an average of 178 months
• Generally a long time.
• Some inmates have waited a decade on death row

WHAT IS THE PROCEDURE FOR DEATH ROW?

• The death penalty appeals process involves state and federal courts
• and direct and post-conviction review of a death sentence
• First, they may raise the claim on direct appeal
• Second, they may petition for state habeas proceedings
• 3rd at the conclusion, they may petition for federal habeas corpus.

PROS FOR DEATH PENALTY

• Society is justly ordered when ea. person receives what is due to him
• Common sense, tells us that the death penalty will deter murder.
• The death penalty honors human dignity by treating the defendant

CONS FOR DEATH PENALTY

• Death sentences are imposed in a criminal justice system that treats you better if you are rich
• death is today a cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by the Clause
• no credible evidence that the death penalty deters crime more effectively