Past
Furman v. Georgia declared that the death penalty was a violation of these amendments.
What is the 8th and 14th Amendment?
List five states that currently use capital punishment.
What is Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wyoming?
The death penalty is currently legal in this many states.
What is 31 states?
Massachusetts was the first colony to use capital punishment.
What is false (Virginia)?
The outcome of the Gregg v. Georgia case.
What is the death penalty was deemed constitutional?
The state with the most executed on death row since the 1970s?
What is Texas?
The electric chair was first used in this year
What is 1890?
Less than 1,000 people have been executed in the US since 1976.
What is false (1458)?
The first state to use the electric chair.
What is New York?
The outcome of the Hall v. Florida case.
What is the ban of IQ to determine who receives the death penalty based on mental state?
People on death row that have been exonerated
What is 158 (as of 2017)?
The Federal Death Penalty was established in 1910?
What is False (1790)?
Cyanide gas was first introduced in this state for carrying out executions
What is Nevada?
List five states than have abolished capital punishment.
What is Alaska, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia, Wisconsin?
Since 1976 this many people have been executed in the US total.
What is 1458 people?
25 federal offenses are punishable by death.
What is False (41)?
The five states, in the 1830's, that eliminated public hangings.
What is Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, and New Jersey?
How many executions does Georgia have since 1973
What is 51?
Capital punishment was suspended in the US from___to___.
What is 1972 to 1976?
What is false (474)?