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USA Death Penalty 2024: Facts, Arguments, and Key People

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USA Death Penalty 2024: Facts, Arguments, and Key People

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The USA Todesstrafe 2024 remains a controversial topic, with 28 states still practicing capital punishment. This summary explores key facts, arguments, and statistics surrounding the death penalty in the United States, the only developed Western nation that continues this practice. Notable points include execution methods, death row statistics, and demographic breakdowns of those executed.

• Average time spent on death row: 24 years
• Execution methods: electric chair, lethal injection, gas chamber, hanging, firing squad
• 2019 statistics: 22 executions (all male), 14 white, 7 black, 1 Hispanic
• Support for death penalty declined from 80% in 1994 to 56% in 2019
• Racial disparities in support: 63% whites, 40% Hispanics, 36% blacks (2014)

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Death Penalty - Important Vocabulary

This page provides a comprehensive list of essential vocabulary related to the death penalty and the criminal justice system. It covers terms ranging from various types of punishments to legal processes and key concepts in the debate surrounding capital punishment.

Vocabulary: Imprisonment (Inhaftierung) - The state of being confined in prison.

Vocabulary: Offender (Straftäter(in)) - A person who commits an illegal act.

Vocabulary: Death penalty/capital punishment (Todesstrafe) - The legally authorized killing of someone as punishment for a crime.

Vocabulary: To sentence someone to death - To officially state the punishment of death for a convicted criminal.

Highlight: The vocabulary list includes terms specific to execution methods, such as "to electrocute someone" and "lethal injection," reflecting the various ways the death penalty is carried out in the USA Todesstrafe 2024.

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Death Penalty - General Facts

This page outlines key information about the death penalty, including its application for violent crimes, methods of execution, and the average time spent on death row. It also presents common arguments for and against capital punishment.

Definition: Death row - The section of a prison where prisoners sentenced to death await execution.

Example: Methods of execution include electrocution, lethal injection, gas chamber, hanging, and firing squad.

Highlight: The average time spent on death row is 24 years, highlighting the lengthy process between sentencing and execution in the USA Todesstrafe 2024.

Arguments for the death penalty include its potential as a deterrent, cost reduction for prisoner maintenance, and providing closure for victims' families. Arguments against it focus on moral objections, the possibility of executing innocent people, and the lack of evidence for its deterrent effect.

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Death Penalty in the US

This page provides a visual representation of the death penalty's status across the United States. It includes a map showing which states currently use the death penalty and which have abolished it.

Highlight: As of 2024, 28 states in the USA still use the death penalty, making it the only developed Western nation to continue this practice.

The page also includes statistics on executions carried out in 2019, broken down by gender and ethnicity. All 22 executed persons were male, with 14 being white, 7 black, and 1 Hispanic.

Quote: "The United States is the only developed Western nation that applies the death penalty."

This statement emphasizes the unique position of the US among its peers regarding capital punishment.

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Handout Death Penalty

This page summarizes key facts about the death penalty in the United States, including general information, execution statistics for 2019, and historical context.

Example: In 2019, Texas carried out the most executions (9), followed by Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee.

The handout also touches on public opinion trends, noting a sharp increase in support between 1966 and 1994, followed by a decline to 56% in 2019. It highlights racial disparities in support for the death penalty.

Highlight: A 2014 study suggested that the belief in the death penalty helping victims' families heal may be misguided, with families often experiencing depression and decreased life satisfaction.

The page concludes with a brief timeline of significant events in the history of capital punishment in the US, including Pennsylvania ending public executions in 1834 and Michigan becoming the first state to abolish the death penalty for all crimes except treason in 1846.

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Death Penalty - Important Vocabulary

Vocabulary: Imprisonment (Inhaftierung) - The state of being confined in prison.

Vocabulary: Offender (Straftäter(in)) - A person who commits an illegal act.

Vocabulary: Death penalty/capital punishment (Todesstrafe) - The legally authorized killing of someone as punishment for a crime.

Vocabulary: To sentence someone to death - To officially state the punishment of death for a convicted criminal.

Highlight: The vocabulary list includes terms specific to execution methods, such as "to electrocute someone" and "lethal injection," reflecting the various ways the death penalty is carried out in the USA Todesstrafe 2024.

Death Penalty - General Facts

Definition: Death row - The section of a prison where prisoners sentenced to death await execution.

Example: Methods of execution include electrocution, lethal injection, gas chamber, hanging, and firing squad.

Highlight: The average time spent on death row is 24 years, highlighting the lengthy process between sentencing and execution in the USA Todesstrafe 2024.

Death Penalty in the US

This page provides a visual representation of the death penalty's status across the United States. It includes a map showing which states currently use the death penalty and which have abolished it.

Highlight: As of 2024, 28 states in the USA still use the death penalty, making it the only developed Western nation to continue this practice.

The page also includes statistics on executions carried out in 2019, broken down by gender and ethnicity. All 22 executed persons were male, with 14 being white, 7 black, and 1 Hispanic.

Quote: "The United States is the only developed Western nation that applies the death penalty."

This statement emphasizes the unique position of the US among its peers regarding capital punishment.

Handout Death Penalty

This page summarizes key facts about the death penalty in the United States, including general information, execution statistics for 2019, and historical context.

Example: In 2019, Texas carried out the most executions (9), followed by Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee.

Highlight: A 2014 study suggested that the belief in the death penalty helping victims' families heal may be misguided, with families often experiencing depression and decreased life satisfaction.