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| The method used to execute the first American following the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976. |
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Firing Squad, Gary Gillmore
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| The first state to execute by lethal gas. |
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What was distinctive about the execution of Juan Raul Garza?
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first person executed under the 1988 Federal "drug kingpin" statute
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Which state conducted the first execution by lethal injection, and the year in which it occurred.
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The sole accepted method of execution in the US for a century after the adoption of the 8th amendment, (except
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The first person to die in the electric chair, and the year in which he was executed.
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Which aggravating factors should be eliminated to narrow death-eligibility dased on interviews with more than
100 imprisoned street criminals in a Virginia prison from 1986-1999.
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| What a writ of certiorari is. |
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appeal made to the US Supreme Court, Supreme Court requests all the files and such
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Problems or criticisms of the first study that showed a statistically significant deterrent effect.
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1. failure to compare effectiveness of capital punishment with that of prison terms
2. if 1965-1969 are omitted, then the detterent findings are void
3. ignores important regional differences
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The year in which Congress enacted a death-penalty statute for murder in the course of a drug kingpin conspiracy
(it created new death-penalty procedures for the federal government)
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Where the Federal Bureau of Prisons constructed the first national execution chamber in American History.
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The name of the first American executed following the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976.
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The percentage of convicted capital offenders who will probably not kill again.
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The state that first authorized exection by lethal injection.
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The percentage of respondents to a recent Gallup Poll who chose "it is a deterrent" as a reason for supporting
the death penalty.
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How many US Supreme Court Justices it takes to stay or stop an execution.
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The percentage of respondents to a recent Gallup Poll who chose incapacitation as their reason for supporting
the death penalty.
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The Supreme Court case in which the court abandoned its fixed or historical meaning of cruel and unusual
punishment and created a new one.
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Weems vs. United States in 1910
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What a writ of habeus corpus is.
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The defendant is being held illegally due to rights infringements
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The percentage of the 1500 organized crime figures convicted between 1996 and 2000 who faced a death sentence,
including those that committed multiple murders. (according to a recent Federal Death Penalty Resource Council
study) |
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Who the first person executed by the US government was, and when this person was executed?
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Thomas Bird, June 25th, 1790
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the first state to execute by elecrocution.
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The last words uttered by the first American executed following the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976.
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The name of the court in which violations of the federal capital punishment statutues are first adjudicated.
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The method of execution currently provided by the most jurisdictions.
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The percentage of all executions performed by hanging in the US since colonial days.
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The year in which the death penalty was first shown by sophisticated statistical methods to be a deterrent to
murder, and the name of the researcher.
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The minimum number of attorneys who must be appointed to represent federal capital defendants.
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The approximate percentage of life-sentenced Texas capital murder defendants who are likely to commit a repeat
murder over 40-year period (according to a recent study)
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The percentage of criminal homicides per year that have resulted in execution since 1930.
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The percentage of supporters of capital punishment who selected cost as a reason for their supports in a
recent Gallup Poll.
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The method of execution that was employed by the majority of states that executed between 1930 and 1972.
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The method of execution that has been used to execute the most offenders under post-furmann statutes
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The percentage of capital offenders between 1995 and 2000 who were minorities.
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The first person executed in the federal death penalty chamber
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First person exectued by lethal gas and when
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The approimate percentage of murders and non-negligent manslaughters that are currently believed to be capital
crimes or death eligible.
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The most influential predictor of prison violence, according to a recent study of life-sentenced Texas capital
murder defendants.
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the age factor, younger = higher chance
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The average cost per execution (the entire process)
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Why the death penalty was not expensive in relation to LWOP prior to the furman decision.
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capital cases were disposed of quickly
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The number of justices who must vote to hear a case before it will be heard by the Supreme Court
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Why voir dire in capital cases takes longer and is more expensive than in non-captial cases.
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jury members must not only be questioned individually, but they also have to be sequestered from the others
until the jury has been assembled
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Cesare Beccaria believed greater deterrent was: capital or life???
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The reasons for using lethal inection as a method of execution.
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Eyewitness reports about the first person electrocuted as execution.
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second jolt, horrible stench, blood and burning,
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Uniform policy for conducting lethal injections?
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What may be appealed according to federal death penalty law.
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only when claims under federal law or the consitution are involved.
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What most police chiefs believe about the death penalty and deterrence.
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dont think it is a good deterrent
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Type of offender most likely to kill inside prison.
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What federal death penalty law requires when appointing counsel.
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minimum of two attorneys, one must have capital background
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The purposes of the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996.
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speed up the process and reduce costs.
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What the FDA's role is in lethal injections, according to the Supreme Court.
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nothing, their discretionary authority is not subject to judicial review.
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The number of death penalty jurisdictions thathave statutory provisions for identifying the wrongfully
convicted.
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22, 20 states, DC and federal
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What would happen to the opinions of death penalty supporters if their belief in deterrence was proven wrong
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they wouldn't change their opinion.
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What research shows about the marginal deterrent effect of the death penalty.
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Whether the Supreme Court must hear all death penalty appeals.
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What a recent study found about capital murderers sentenced to LWOP adn the threat they pose to other
prisoners and correction staff.
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they pose less of a threat than the others
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Illinois study found what about county spending for capital trials.
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could increase county sending by as much as 1.8% per trial, taken out of taxpayers and and police
and highway appropriations
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What is general deterrence.
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How much the State of Florida spent to execute Ted Bundy.
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Why electrocution was chosen over lethal injection by the state that first adopted electrocution.
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protests from the medical profession about "needles" being associated with death
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The amount spent by the federal government to execute Timothy McVeigh.
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What is unique or interesting about Stanley "Tookie" Williams?
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niminated for nobel peace prize, given a shitload of awards, basically was rehabilitated, then executed :)
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number of countries who abolished death penalty by beginning of 20th century.
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Studies in changes of murder rates before and after abolition and or reinstatement show what?
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The role of the US Attorney General in the federal death penalty.
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death penalty cannot be reccommended without the consent of the Attorney General.
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Doctors participation in executions.
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41 percent surveyed had no problem doing one out of the ten tasks... 25% would do five or more.
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Do long stays on death row constitute cruel and unusual punishment???
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Whether victim impact evidence is prohibited by federal death penalty law.
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it is not prohibited, it is allowed.
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The country in which the electric chair was invented.
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The effect of the costs of capital trials on the decisions of prosecutors to seek them.
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VERY few capital prosecutions
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The number of countries that had abolished the death penalty in law or practice as of March 2007.
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Protocol Number 6 to the European Convention on Human Rights
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| abolishes death penalties in time of peace |
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How many death penalty jurisdictions have LWOP?
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38 out of 39 (36states, plus feds, plus military)
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Position of the American Society of Criminology on capital punishment and its reasons.
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80 percent believe it is not a better deterrent than life in prison
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What the federal death penalty laws say about the death penalty and Native Americans.
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feds cant impose death penalty on Native Americans unless the tribe gives up their sovereign immunity.
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What Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla believed about electrocution.
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so horrible it never should have been invented.
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The number of death row inmated who have escaped from prison.
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Why official witnesses are required at executions.
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to ensure that the execution is carried out, and done so in a humane and dignified manner.
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Number of Furman-commuted death row inmates who returned to death row after killing again.
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What Congress has done since 1990 about the number of federal capital crimes.
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Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, increased number to around 50.
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Whether all federal capital crimes involve murder.
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no... all but four involve murder, but four of them do not.
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What LWOP inmates have to lose if they kill or commit other infractions in prison.
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privileges, such as visitation, mail and phone, commissary access, classes, recreation
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What research shows about prison staff members, inmates, and their safety in the prisons in which they work.
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The practices the Supreme Court considers cruel and unusual punishment, and those that it does not.
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excessive punishments, death row conditions, elderly and infirm executions, as well as long death row
stays are NOT cruel and unusual.
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What federal death penalty law requires of jurors when it comes to finding a mitigating circumstance.
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only one juror required to find it, then weighing can begin
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The kinds of cases on which the Supreme Court will rule.
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heard at courts discretion, when constitutionality is in question, defendant claims rights were violated.
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What Professor Sellin found about capital punishment and police killings.
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capital punishment had no effect.
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The most expensive part of the entire death penalty process.
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What federal death penalty law requires of jurors in the finding of an aggravating circumstance.
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How important the Supreme Court considers incapacitation.
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only a secondary consideration.
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What federal death penalty law requires of a jury that recommends death.
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must furnish the court with signed certificates saying discrimination had nothing to do with the
proceedings
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What research shows about murder rates following a highly publicized execution.
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they go down a bit, but not for long... there are actually more brutalizing than deterring efeects in many
cases.
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Why the cost of a death sentence will probably always be more expensive than an LWOP sentence.
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super due process is required.
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What research shows about homicide rates in death penalty and non-death penalty states.
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| fails to show a marginal deterrent effect. |
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