States
This many states have abolished capital punishment.
What is 23?
This ethnic group consists of 85% of convicts on death row.
Who are African Americans?
This inmate killed at least 30 women and is infamously known for his good looks.
Who was Ted Bundy?
This form of capital punishment is the most commonly used method in America.
What is Lethal Injection?
This was the first state to formally establish the death penalty.
What is Virginia?
This tropical state abolished the death penalty back in 1957.
What is Hawaii?
This is roughly how long is 1 life sentence is; (Afterwards convicts usually eligible for parole).
What is 25 years?
This inmate was the youngest person to receive the death penalty in the U.S. at the age of 14.
Who was George Stinney?
This is the method of capital punishment that incorporates powerful weaponry as an approach to killing.
What is Shooting/Firing Squad?
This was the first civilization with recorded Capital Punishment laws.
What is Babylonian Empire?
This state was the first to abolish the death penalty for all crimes but treason in 1846.
What is Michigan?
This state has cared out the most executions (since 1975)
What is Texas?
This inmate is famous for dressing up as a clown to lure young boys to him.
Who was John Wayne Gacy?
This method of capital punishment is legal in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Sudan, United Arab Emirates, Nigeria, Iran, Yemen, and Brunei. It involves pelting people with certain objects that eventually lead to injuries causing death.
What is Stoning?
In the latter part of the 18th century there began a movement to limit the scope of capital punishment.
What is The Abolition Movement?
This is the most recent state to abolish Capital Punishment on July 2021.
What is Virginia?
The man longest on death row (45 years).
Who is Hakamada Iwao?
This couple were the only Americans executed after charged with espionage.
Who are the Rosenbergs?
Only in Arizona, California, Oklahoma, and Wyoming, this secondary/backup method of execution is used.
What is Gas Inhalation?
This document by Cesare Beccaria theorized that there was no justification for the state’s taking of a life.
What is ’On Crimes and Punishment’?
This abolished capital punishment in 1916 but reinstated it in 1918.
What is Arizona?
This man was the most recent person executed.
Who was Dustin Higgs?
Known as the Gray Man or the Boogeyman, this killer and cannibal claims that his victims are into the hundreds.
Who was Albert Fish?
Martha M. Place was the first woman executed with this method of capital punishment. It was only ever used by the United States and Phillipines.
What is the Electric Chair?
This was the first country to get rid of capital punishment.
What is Venezuela?