(6B) DO NOW: Your Best Piece of Evidence by Dario Sulzman

stephanie

2024-02-16 13:35:32 UTC

“In 96% of states where there have been reviews of race and the death penalty, there was a pattern of either race-of-victim or race-of-defendant discrimination, or both.”

Justine

2024-02-16 13:35:35 UTC

“Police chiefs rank the death penalty last as a way of reducing violent crime, placing it behind curbing drug abuse, more police officers on the streets, lowering the technical barriers to prosecution, longer sentences, and a better economy with more jobs.”

Dionte

2024-02-16 13:35:39 UTC

Around 2,400 prisoners currently face execution in the United States. The national death-row population has declined for 20 consecutive years, as sentence reversals, executions, and deaths by other causes are outpacing new death sentences.

Natasha

2024-02-16 13:35:41 UTC

“we can’t forget the victims either. Genny Gonzales would be 28 old this year. she never went to highschool, attended college, or fell in love. she is gone. her murders richly deserve the death penalty though justice won’t be complete until their sentence is called out

Amy M

2024-02-16 13:36:23 UTC

“A 2003 legislative audit in Kansas found that the

estimated cost of a death penalty case was 70% more

than the cost of a comparable non-death penalty case“

Destin

2024-02-16 13:36:56 UTC

“For every eight people on death row, one of them has later been found innocent.”

Adriana

1043171 — 2024-02-16 13:37:42 UTC

"people of color are more likely to be prosecuted for capital murder, sentenced to death, and executed, especially if the victim in the case is white."

gema

2024-02-16 13:38:39 UTC

"The Washington Supreme Court struck down the death penalty recently for the 4th time, calling it 'invalid because it is imposed in an arbitrary and racially biased manner."