The Death Penalty
By. Jackie
Did you know ?
United States
The Death Penalty
• United State is the only
country in the western
world
• Since 1976, more than
580 people have been
executed
• Public support has
declined.
• The time for building a
movement to abolish the
death penalty is now
The Death Penalty should be banned.
1. The death penalty is racist.
2. The death penalty condemns the
innocent to die.
3. The death penalty is not a
deterrent to violent crime.
The death penalty is racist
• Africa Americans –
12% U.S. population
But, 42 % of prisoners
on death row.
• 80% of the victims in
death penalty case
were white, only 14%
were black.
The death penalty is racist
• Only 42 out of over
18,000 executions
involved a white
person for killing a
black person.
• In 1972, US Supreme
court rule that
death penalty law is
unconstitutional.
The death penalty condemns
the innocent to die.
• The possibility exists
that innocent people
may be put to death.
• Since 1973,
123 people have been
released.
• 1 Death Row prisoner
wrongfully convicted
for every 7 executed.
The death penalty is not a
deterrent to violent crime.
• States with death
penalty have a
homicide rate of 5.91
per 100,000, states
without the death
penalty 4.10
• 44% difference.
Credits
• www.nodeathpenalty.org
• www.antideathpenalty.org
• http://web.amnesty.org
• http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/