Definitions
The legally authorized killing of someone as punishment for a crime.
What is “Capital Punishment“
This method is the most commonly used in the US
What is “Lethal injection?”
Execution has been traditionally more costly than its counterpart
What is “Which is more expensive: execution or incarceration?”
These many states have the death penalty in effect
27 States
This party won the case.
Who is “Furman?”
An injection administered for the purposes of euthanasia.
What is “Lethal Injection”?
murder, treason, genocide, or the killing or kidnapping of a Congressman, the President, or a Supreme Court justice
What are “crimes get the death penalty?”
The youngest person to be executed was this age
What is “14 years old”?
These many states have banned Capital Punishment.
What is “23 States”?
This crime is what Furman was convicted of
What is “Murder”?
An airtight room that can be filled with poisonous gas as a means of execution.
What is ”A Gas Chamber”?
These 5 forms have been used for execution in the United States (Please name all)
What is “Hanging, Electric Chair, Firing Squad, Lethal Injection, Gas Chamber?“
What is “Hanging”?
This state was the first to use the death penalty.
What is “Virginia?”
The final ruling of Furman v Georgia
5-4
In criminal law, sovereign act of oblivion or forgetfulness (from Greek amnēsia) for past acts, granted by a government to persons who have been guilty of crimes.
What is “Amnesty”?
When given lethal injection, this many shots are required.
What is “3”?
This person was the first person to receive death by an electric chair.
What is “William Kemmler?”
This state was the first to ban the electric chair
What is “Pennsylvania?”
This amendment aided in the final ruling of the case.
What is “The 8th Amendment”?
The notion that punishment is imposed because it is deserved. Murderers are to be given the death penalty because that is the penalty they have earned by their offense.
What is “Retribution”?
These are the main functions of the drugs used in lethal injection.
What is “Unconsciousness/numbness, paralysis, stopping heart?”
This method of execution is the cover of the record label “Death Row Records” and featured in the film “The Green Mile”
What is “The Electric Chair”
This state has the most executions since the reinstatement of the death penalty since 1977
What is “Texas”?
One of the judges that voted in favor of Furman.
What is “William O. Douglas, William J. Brennan, Thurgood Marshall, Byron White, or Potter Stewart”?