Present death penalty
The most common form of death penalty today
What is lethal injection?
1 reason why there are more black people than white people on death row
What is systemic racism/inherent bias/race of the victim?
The tool used for a lethal injection
What is a needle?
"A study in Washington State found that Black defendants are more than ____ times more likely to be sentenced to death than similarly situated non-Black defendants (Beckett and Evans, 2016).”
What is four?
A) True or False: in the past, stealing someone's dog was punishable by death
B) True or False: in the past, stealing someone's horse was punishable by death
(you must get both right for the points)
What are
A) False
B) True
?
Tool used to electrocute a convict
What is the electric chair?
5 states that still use death penalties
What are (any 5 of the following): Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, 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, and Wyoming?
The year that the death penalty was outlawed...and the name of the case that led to the change
What is 1972 and Furman vs. Georgia?
A method of capital punishment: the experimental form using _______ ________ to induce death. Mainly used in the South
What is Nitrogen Hypoxia?
Governor-imposed moratorium
What is when the governor can decide whether or not its state will have the death penalty?
Most common method of death penalty in the past
What is hanging?