Death Penalty Law
War crimes, treason, and murder qualify someone for this form or punishment.
What is Capital Punishment or the Death Penalty
One of the founding members of the Crypt street gang, executed December 13, 2005.
Mike "sweetness" Smith. Will "gorgeous" Johnson. Stanley "Tookie" Williams?
Who is Stanley "Tookie" Williams?
The death penalty is said to ________ criminals from committing serious crimes.
deter. impel. maintain
What is deter?
Families of victims often feel this method of punishment is just as or more satisfying than the death penalty.
What is life in prison?
This method of execution uses a chemical mixture to first numb and then kill.
What is lethal injection?
A group of cheetahs
Quickness or coalition
coalition
The ban on cruel and unusual punishment is found in what amendment?
What is the Eighth Amendment?
This man admitted to the murder of 23 women and was put to death in Florida via the electric chair in 1975.
Ted Bundy. Jeffrey Dahmer. John Wayne Gacy
Who is Ted Bundy?
Less than _____% of death penalty convictions are wrongful.
5%. 4%. 1%. 87%.
What is 1%?
This Supreme Court Case took away the death penalty for 4 years
Furman vs. Georgia. Gregg vs Georgia
Furman vs. Georgia.
Some believe this form of execution to be a bit "shocking"
What is the electric chair.
Group of Crocodiles
Float or Crank
Float
What two groups can't get the death penalty in the US?
Mentally ill and juvenile offenders
This couple was convicted of stealing atomic bomb secrets and convicted of treason.
The Rosenbergs. The Steins. the Cohens
Who are the Rosenbergs?
Bonus-What is a group of giraffes called
Tower
Some who do not support the death penalty believe that no person has the right to take the ______ of another person.
What is life?
The preferred method of execution in the 1700's.
What is hanging?
A group of finches
Farm, Charm, Harm
Charm
This law created after Furman vs. Georgia requires courts to only enact the death penalty in cases where the crime is proportionate to the punishment
Proportionality Requirement or Sentencing Apportionment
What is The Proportionality Requirement?
The oldest man on death row, executed in 2006.
Jerry Joe Smith. Clarence Ray Allen. Mike Gilmore Sr.
Who is Clarence Ray Allen, 76?
This type of evidence testing has helped to insure that guilty criminals committed a crime. Hint: Deoxyribonucleic acid
What is DNA testing?
How many states do not have the death penalty
22. 23. 24. 25
23
California, Missouri, Arizona, and Wyoming are the sates which allow this method of execution.
Gas Chamber or Firing Squad
What is the gas chamber?
Group of racoons
Gaze, haze, faze, taze
Gaze
The First Congress of the Unites States authorized the federal death penalty in what year?
1789 1790. 1791. 1988
What is June 25, 1790?
This man killed President William McKinley.
Shane Caliglia Leon Czolgosz. Ted Krasue
Who is Leon Czolgosz?
What is it called when you are sitting in prison waiting to be put to death.
Death row
When the court reverses a verdict based on new evidence thus freeing the previously convicted person; one main reason some people do not support the death penalty.
wrongful conviction. In re salut. Double Jeopardy
What is a wrongful conviction?
Utah uses this method of execution only in cases in which the inmate being executed request it.
Firing Squad. Hanging. Gas Chamber. Guilitine
What is the firing squad?
Group of rats
Colony