Crime is different because 7.5 million people are in Prison right now of killing children. The death penalty is currently implanted in 32 states (down from 34 in 2012). It was re-legalized by a Supreme Court decision in 1997. Since then, 1,392 people have been executed. About 3,000 inmates remain on death row. Texas is by for the national leader in executions-it has executed 518 people as of November 2014, of 37% of the national total. (Oklahoma is a very distinct second with111). Florida is 4th with 89 executions, but has 404 people on death row as of November 2014(only California has more, with 745). Much of the current controversy about the death penalty focuses on the circumstances were it should be applied, and on its unequal application among racial and classes. About 62% of death row inmates are black or other minority versus 17% in the general population, over 98% of death ravine males are
Crime is different because 7.5 million people are in Prison right now of killing children. The death penalty is currently implanted in 32 states (down from 34 in 2012). It was re-legalized by a Supreme Court decision in 1997. Since then, 1,392 people have been executed. About 3,000 inmates remain on death row. Texas is by for the national leader in executions-it has executed 518 people as of November 2014, of 37% of the national total. (Oklahoma is a very distinct second with111). Florida is 4th with 89 executions, but has 404 people on death row as of November 2014(only California has more, with 745). Much of the current controversy about the death penalty focuses on the circumstances were it should be applied, and on its unequal application among racial and classes. About 62% of death row inmates are black or other minority versus 17% in the general population, over 98% of death ravine males are