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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGina-tycF8

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executions since 1976 -

87

Executions before 1976 -

285

Method -

choice of injection or gas

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http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/human-life-and-dignity/death-penalty-capital-punishment/catholic-campaign-to-end-the-use-of-the-death-penalty.cfm

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While the vast majority of U.S. Catholics support capital punishment, Pope John Paul II has declared the Church's near total opposition to the death penalty. ( Frontline)

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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/angel/procon/popestate.html

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They hope that people realize that the dignity of human life should never be taken away, even if the person has done great evil.
- Believe it is very cruel and unnecessary.
- If society can protect itself from ending a human life, then the church leaders think they shouldn't end someone's life.

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Lethal execution is

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Since 1973, 140 people have been released from death rows throughout the country because of wrongful conviction.
Same time, more than 1,200 people have been executed

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http://www.amnestyusa.org/pdfs/DeathPenaltyFactsMay2012.pdf

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https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/

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Death penalty and international human rights standards.

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Death penalty and international human rights standards.

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over two-thirds of the countries in the world (141) have now abolished the death penalty in law or practice.
2010- overwhelming majority of all known executions took place in 5 countries - China, Iran, North Korea, Yemen, and U.S.

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Race of defendants executed -

white - 55.7%

black - 34.4%

Hispanic - 8.3%

other - 1.6%

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in 1976 the death penalty was reinstated

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there have been 1448 executions since 1976

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the death penalty is legal in 32 states and illegal in 18