So, then, how does one justify the fact that African Americans represent 36% of the death row population compared to 12% of the overall population? ... Statistics assuredly portray the inequality of race in relations to executions; both past and present. ... Sister Prejean points out in her book numerous times the lack of knowledge in regards to death penalty statistics and the American people. ... Capital cases have a high correlation towards poverty, and the census data provides insight to the fact that the African American population in the US offers a greater chance of poverty; nearly d...

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In the year 2000, 66% of Americans supported the death penalty ("History" 7). ... Safety for all prison employees, other prisoners and the population outside of the institutions is of paramount importance. ... Do we let him play cards in general population for the rest of his sentence? ... In the year 2001, 1,969 death row inmates were white, 1,538 were black, 28 were American Indian, 33 were Asian and 13 were of unknown race ("Justice Statistics"). ... Sixty-nine of the seventy-one were men and two were women (Justice Statistics.) ...

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The United States' religious population is also made up with some more Eastern religions. ... The associations are The American Society of Criminology, The Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and The Law and Society Association. ... Department of Justice, in 1999, states that had the death penalty had murder rates on the average of 5.5 per 100,000, and the average was 3.6 per 100,000 in the states that did not have the death penalty (Bureau of Justice Statistics, n.d.). Opponents of capital punishment would say that the statistics show that the death penalty does not act as any more ...

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Indeed, trends in Australia from 1965 to 1985 demonstrate an increasing number of homicide cases being reported to the police, but since the figures are rising more slowly than the population, the homicide rate has actually fallen over this period, from nearly six per hundred thousand to less than 4.4. The relevant data, incorporating murder statistics between 1973 and 1984 are set out in the figures blow. (Source: Wallace, Alison (1986), Homicide: The Social Reality, New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, Sydney, 93) The most common justification for the death penal...

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According to The Bureau of Justice statistics and history on the death penalty, in 1967 the Supreme Court ceased all executions until a ruling could be made on the constitutionality of capital punishment, in particular whether it could be considered cruel and unusual punishment, thus violating the constitution. The Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment did not violate the constitution and in 1976 America saw the reinstatement of the death penalty. ... The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) addresses the issue on their website with the following statement. ... Although the debate wa...

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The United States' religious population is also made up with some more Eastern religions. ... The associations are The American Society of Criminology, The Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and The Law and Society Association. ... Department of Justice, in 1999, states that had the death penalty had murder rates on the average of 5.5 per 100,000, and the average was 3.6 per 100,000 in the states that did not have the death penalty (Bureau of Justice Statistics, n.d.). Opponents of capital punishment would say that the statistics show that the death penalty does not act as any more ...

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This scenario that happened in Illinois really changes the way that America thinks about capital punishment. ... One can also look to other countries to find statistics that back up the argument that the death penalty has no effect on capital crimes being committed or not. ... One of the main foundations the American justice system is built on is fairness. ... "Of the 3,856 prisoners executed under civil authority in the United States during 1930-1965, 53.6 percent were blacks, yet during that time period, they accounted for less than 12 percent of the population. ...

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The nation's death-row population now numbers more than 3, 335 inmates. Capital punishment, or the death penalty, has again become a basic fact of American criminal justice. ... Over the past five years, 48 % of those people whose cases were submitted to the Justice Department for review were African American, 29 % Latino and 20 % white. ... "The entire criminal-justice system is rife with racism, and this is nowhere more evident than in the administration of the death penalty," said Diann Rust-Tierney, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Capital Punishment Project. ...

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These statistics clearly show that other forms of punishment are successful in the deterrence of crime and capital punishment is not needed. ... Note that the population greatly increased throughout this time period. ...

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