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Thesis: The Death penalty is viewed as a harsh way to punish, but in some cases its safer, a better for justice purposes, and for the person on death row.

Topic: Pro Death Penalty "Death Penalty." //Top 10 Pros and Cons//. ProCon, 13 apr 2009. Web. 25 May 2010. . > Initials : CR,KW
 * 1) people fear death
 * 2) rape, torture, treason, kidnapping, murder, should be the main reason for the death penalty
 * 3) family gets even
 * 4) death penalty honors human dignity by treating the defendant as a free moral actor able to control his own destiny for good or for ill
 * 5) Farmer v. Brennan
 * 6) People fear nothing more than death
 * 7) males: 3629 98.56% 2000
 * 8) females: 53 1.44% 2000
 * 9) white: 1701 46.20% 2000
 * 10) black: 1573 42.71% 2000
 * 11) native american: 46 1.25% 2000
 * 12) juveniles: 71 1.93% 2000
 * 13) nothing will deter a criminal more than the fear of death... life in prison is less feared
 * 14) we must execute murders as long as its nearly possible that their execution protects citizens from future murderers
 * 15) deserved punishment protects society by paying the price
 * 16) the mistakes with the dealth penalty are small
 * 17) its inexpensive
 * 18) for 50 years of uthenization fluid is only 1million dollars
 * 19) death penalty has been slowly increasing but not by many
 * 20) they do it for a good reason, not just because they can
 * 21) they're trying to ban juvenille death penaltys
 * 22) new needle for every person

"Death Penalty ." //DPIC//. Death Penalty Information Center, 2010. Web. 25 May 2010. . Initials: CR, KW
 * 1) current death row cases should be reviewed to decide which ones should be executed and which ones should be put in prison for life without parole.
 * 2) Justice Pfeifer was one of three Republican state senators who led the effort to reinstate the death penalty in Ohio in 1981 after the U.S. Supreme Court declared the old law unconstitutional
 * 3) they use forensics to decide how bad the victim suffered while deciding who should be put on death penalty
 * 4) have certain judges that submit death penalty
 * 5) since 1996-2009 the death penalty rate went down 70%
 * 6) there more cautious on who they choose for the death penalty
 * 7) only high cases of murder are chosen
 * ex: 5 murders or shooting or varies of rape would be sentenced to the death penalty
 * 1) Roy Gene Smith and David Lewis had their death sentences thrown out by Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
 * 2) they are examining evidence closely when deciding murders
 * ex: they thoroughly analyze DNA and forensics
 * 1) California Senate committee passes bill to adopt one-drug lethal injection
 * 2) a one-drug lethal injection process involving an appropriate anesthetic
 * 3) by putting people to the death penalty its serving families and the victims justice
 * 4) CSI directors play a big part in deciding death penaltys
 * 5) arbitrary-subject to individual will or judgment without restriction/decided by a judge or arbiter rather than by a law or statute
 * 6) Death Sentences in California Show Arbitrariness of the System
 * 7) ROPER v. SIMMONS
 * 8) Mar 2005 The US Supreme Courted ruled that the death penalty was for those people hwo had committed their crimes at under 18yrs was cruel and unusual punishment and hence barred by the constitution
 * 9) Only 18 Countries Carried out exectutions in 2009

"Death Row." //Death Row Facts//. Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice, 06 mar 2007. Web. 25 May 2010. .

Initials: MK
 * 1) Death row used to by at the East building of Huntsville Unit (1928-1952)
 * 2) 1952-1965 the electric chair was located in a building by the East Wall of Huntsville Unit
 * 3) Death row has been in Hunstville until 1999
 * 4) 1999 death row men were moved to the Poluncky Unit
 * 5) Death row offenders live-to-die in separate 60 sqaure feet cells, with a window
 * 6) Recreated individually
 * 7) Offenders receive regular deit
 * 8) Has access to reading, writing, and legal materials
 * 9) Depending on custody level, death row offenders are allowed radio
 * 10) Women on death row are housed at the Mountain View Unit
 * 11) Offenders do not have regular TDCJ-ID number, but special death row numbers
 * 12) Hangings were used to execute between 1819-1923
 * 13) Prior too 1923 states were in charge of their own executions
 * 14) first electrocuted was on 2-8-1924
 * 15) Ewell Morris, George Washingon, Mack Matthews, and Melvin Johnson were also executed on 2-8-1924
 * 16) Texas executed brothers on 6 occasion
 * 17) Frank & Lorenzo Noel electrocuted 7/3/1925;
 * 18) S.A. & Forest Robins electrocuted 4/6/1926;
 * 19) Oscar & Mack Brown electrocuted 7/1/1936;
 * 20) Roscoe & Henderson Brown electrocuted 5/6/1938;
 * 21) Curtis 7/1/1993 & Danny 7/30/1993 Harris (both by lethal injection);
 * 22) Jessie 9/16/1994 & Jose 11/18/1999 Gutierrez (both by lethal injection).
 * 23) Raymond Hamilton was most notorious offendrs to be executed, member of “Bonnie and Clyde”
 * 24) Hamilton and another escaped from there…
 * 25) Total of 361 were electrocuted in Texa
 * 26) In Texas 45 men were on death row when Supreme Court declared capital punishment as “cruel and unusual”; these were followed through with
 * 27) The last to be executed by electrocution in Texas was on 7-30-1964
 * 28) In Texas the last to be electrocuted was Joseph Johnson, from Harris County
 * 29) Death Row was clear by March 1973
 * 30) Executions were allowed again in 1974 (1-1) after revisions to the Texas Penal Code
 * 31) Texas adopted lethal injection in 1977, making executions more humane
 * 32) The first man to be executed, (1974) was #507 John Devries, placed on death row 2-15-1974, but before he could be killed, he committed suicide on 7-1-1974, by hanging himself with bed sheets
 * 33) Beginning 1-12-1996, close relatives and friends were allowed to witness executions
 * 34) 1923-1973 is the pre-abolished death penalty
 * 35) Death Penalty was re-established December 31, 1999 (authorized by 38 states)
 * 36) Possible death penalty in the U.S., Lethal Injection, Electrocution, Lehal Gas, Hanging, and Firing Sqaud

White, Deborah. "Pros&Cons of the Death Penalty." //About.com//. New Your Times, 2010. Web. 25 May 2010. .

Initials: CR, KW
 * 1) about 13,000 people have been legally executed since colonial times
 * 2) no executions occurred in the US between 1967-1976
 * 3) china has the highest death penalty rate
 * 4) north korea has the lowest death penalty rate
 * 5) case of stanley "tookie" williams
 * 6) death penalty has not always benn practiced in the U.S.
 * 7) in 1972 supreme court effectively legalized the death penalty
 * 8) in 1976 another supreme court ruling found the death penalty constitutional
 * 9) when they found it constitutional, that same year the U.S. death penalty rate was at its highest in history
 * 10) as of oct 2009 death penalty in the US is officially sanctioned by 34 states and the fed government
 * 11) 1976 through oct 2009 1177 felons were executed in the US
 * 12) between 1976-2009 texas holds the highest death penalty execution rate
 * 13) lowest rate was tied between louisiana and arkansas at 27 deaths
 * 14) 58 countries world wide now support the death penalty
 * 15) taxes pay for the euthinization fluids
 * 16) california pays the most taxes for death row
 * 17) maryland doesnt pay alot of taxes for death row
 * 18) the us supreme court fails to support abolishing the death penalty
 * 19) they evaluate your psych and suicidal backround beforehand
 * 20) make sure your not legally insane

Wornsnop, Richard L. "Death Penalty Debate." //CQ Researcher//. CQ Press, 10 mar 1995. Web. 25 May 2010. .

Initials: CR, KW
 * 1) it used to be called the "chair" insted of the death penalty
 * 2) they switched over from the electric chair to uthenization in 1977
 * 3) before they switched they used uthenization before it just wasn't as common
 * 4) people have to view the death penalty to make sure its done correctly
 * 5) Susan v. Smith of Union, S.C.
 * 6) susan strapped 3 kids into her minivan and pushed it into a lake (she was punished by death penalty)
 * 7) it keeps people from doing capital crime
 * 8) in many capital cases the court appointed lawyers showed up drunk to court cases and didnt remember their clients names
 * 9) the dealth penalty ranks last as a way of reducing violent crimes
 * 10) sometimes people purposly do something to earn the death penalty because they're suicidal
 * 11) in 1960's it was rare to get the death penalty
 * 12) between 1965-1967 only 2 people got the death penalty
 * 13) Furman v. Georgia, Woodson v. North Carolina, Pulley v. Harris, McClesky v. Kemp, Stanford v. Kentucky, Wilkins v. missouri, Penry v. Lynaugh, Ford v. Wainwright, Payne v. Tennessee, Herrera v. Collins
 * 14) They write books about the cases to make sure they did it correctly
 * 15) In 1636 it was the beginning of the death penalty
 * 16) In 1636 only 13 crimes were punishible by death
 * 17) Death Penalty established in The Massachusetts Bay Colony
 * 18) In the 1930's there was an average of 167 death penalties per year
 * 19) The growing doubts about the death penalty lead it to decline in number of executions (1935)
 * 20) 38 states with death penalty
 * 21) 12 states with out death penalty (WV is one of them)
 * 22) Maryland is a death penalty state

"Pros and Cons." //Death Penalty Arguments//. N.p., 03 may 2001. Web. 25 May 2010. .


 * 1) Capital Punishment= Death Penalty
 * 2) Used today, and in ancient times
 * 3) Bible advocates death for murderers, kidnapping, and witchcraft
 * 4) One of the most Debated issues in the Criminal Justice System
 * 5) Capital punishment was legal until 1972
 * 6) Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional in Furman vs. Georgia, saying it violated the 8 and 14th amendment.
 * 7) Supreme court said it was cruel and unusual punishment
 * 8) 1976 Supreme Court reversed decision in Gregg vs. Georgia
 * 9) Supreme Court approves of death penalty, but some states don’t
 * 10) States that don’t have death penalty: Alaska, D.C., Hawaii, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia, Wisconsin
 * 11) About 16000 people are murdered per year (in US)
 * 12) Penalty of death deters some would-be murderers
 * 13)  J. Edgar Hoover said: “Have you ever thought about how many criminals escape Punishment, and yet, the victims never have a chance to do that? Are crime victims in the United States today the forgotten people of our time? Do they receive full measure of justice?” (As cited in Isenberg, 1977, p. 129)
 * 14) Murderers can prepare a will
 * 15) Murderers can prepare mentally for death, unlike victims
 * 16) Murderers can make last statements
 * 17) Murderers take a away the victims freedom and pursuit of happiness
 * 18) Some propaganda can support the murderer, making people sympathetic
 * 19) about 2,000,000 people are beaten in the U.S. every year
 * 20) about 2,000,000 people are knifed, shot, or assaulted
 * 21) It was your free will to kill, and you can have that option again
 * 22) When the death penalty wasn’t allowed, murderers doubled
 * 23) A person is on death row for about 10 years
 * 24) Some feel if the death penalty came swiftly and inevitably, even less murders would occur
 * 25) If murderers were caught immediately, then less murders would occur
 * 26)  “The life of a man should be sacred to each other (Bedau, H., 1982, p. 330)”. Means murderers aren’t good
 * 27) In an unsure case, the accused will not be killed
 * 28) No evidence of an innocent beginning killed
 * 29) Does the possibility of an innocent persons death enough to not save the victims of repeat-killers/ murderers who wouldn’t have murdered
 * 30) Killing during war is for a cause (as long as your fighting for your country)

Initials: RE; MK

Montaldo, charles. "Death Penalty for Juveniles." //about.com:crime/punishment//. about.com, 2010. Web. 25 May 2010. . Initials: CR, KW
 * 1) 19 US states that allow the execution of 16 and 17 year olds
 * 2) US supreme court voted for death penalty for juveniles
 * 3) state legislatures determine wherther or not to keep the death penalty
 * 4) juries evaluate the situation and the juvenille to decide what they deserve
 * 5) alot of juveniles who receive the death penalty were either physically abused, sexually abused, drug addicted, abandoned, or in sever poverty.
 * 6) With the exception of Somalia, US is the only country in the world that still executes juvenilles
 * 7) oral arguments on juvenile death penalty : Roper v. Simmons
 * 8) Supreme Court is deeply divided on the issue
 * 9) US Supreme Court later voted 5-4 to outlaw juvenile death penalty for those under age 18 at the time of their crime being commited
 * 10) Simmons jury who sentenced him had no knowledge of his psychological condition

[] Initials: CR, KW
 * 1) at first they used to hang people for the death penalty
 * 2) next they used the electric chair
 * 3) now they use lethal injection
 * 4) lethal injections are more humane
 * 5) less painfull for the defendant
 * 6) Supreme Court Decided on Lethal Injections to cause less pain
 * 7) Supreme court started out uthenizing animals
 * 8) They got the idea to uthenize people from animals being put to "sleep"
 * 9) more than 3315 men and women were serving death sentences in AMerican prisons in dec 2004
 * 10) many people have been on death row for decades
 * 11) some will die before ever facing execution
 * 12) they send them to a death watch which is a special area of the prison to wait to go in the execution
 * 13) Death Watch is similar to a jail cell
 * 14) In the final 24 hours before execution the prisoner can be visited by several people
 * 15) the last meal provided is whatever the prisoner requests
 * 16) the warden and state-appointed chaplain visit with the inmate and stay until the end of the exevution
 * 17) inmate makes final preperations( shower and dress )
 * 18) Heart moniter (EKG) is connected