The number of steps in the implementation plan suggested by Team A to resolve the issue of capital punishment.
What is three?
100
Capital punishment is the execution of murderers under what levels of government
What are state and federal?
100
The total number of death row inmates in the United States as of January 1, 2014
What is 3,070?
100
This race has experienced the most executions
What is Caucasian?
100
The percentage of women that are on death row
What is 5%?
200
This step is very important in the group's implementation plan because it allows the group to reflect on their past actions and learn from them.
What is Step 4: Evaluate results and make changes if necessary
200
Capital punishment is marked by what inequalities
What are racial disparities and inadequate defense for the poor?
200
This person spent 18 years in jail, and was pardoned after DNA evidence proved him innocent
Who is Earl Washington?
200
The death penalty violates this amendment to the Constitution
What is the Eighth Amendment?
200
This U.S. state has conducted the most executions
What is Texas?
300
Similar to a strategic plan, this ensures that everyone is aligned and focused on the main goal of abolishing capital punishment
What is an implementation plan
300
The way that punishment should be deployed in order for it to be a deterrent
What is consistently and promptly?
300
The amount of states that have abolished the death penalty
What is eighteen?
300
The number of different chemicals used in an lethal injection
What is three?
300
The number of states that serve the death penalty
What is 32?
400
What individuals should the group contact to voice their opinions and forward the petitions that document the support of the people.
Who are the local legislators?
400
The death penalty is a violation of the constitutional ban against what
What are cruel and unusual punishment and the guarantee of the due process of the law, and legal protection of the law?
400
The total costs of the death penalty in the state of Maryland
What is $3 million dollars?
400
This is the year that the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty
What is 1976?
400
This method of execution is no longer used anywhere
What is the guillotine?
500
The requests granted at an execution
What is have the last meal, have a chance to say his or her last words, have the minister say the last prayer, a last visit with family.
500
The judicial system uses these individuals to determine if the death penalty is necessary for the crime committed
What is the jury?
500
Executed in July 1997, he was denied appeal after appeal for DNA testing. Even after his death, his wife tried to prove his innocence, but the last DNA evidence was burned without any further testing.
What is Joseph Roger O'Dell?
500
These are the five different methods of execution
What are firing squad, hanging, lethal injection, electrocution, and the gas chamber?
500
These three states allow inmates to choose between lethal injection and electrocution