Capital punishment debate in the United States
   Opposition to capital punishment in the United States existed as early
   as the colonial period. Opposition to the death penalty peaked in
   (42%), the rest (11%) had 'no opinion'. The death penalty increased in
   since then, the anti-death penalty movement has strengthened again and
   the death penalty, an increase of over 80% over the last 17 years.
   Arguments in opposition to the death penalty in the US include: the
   bodies in the USA oppose the death penalty.^[2]^[3]
          + 1.5 Contemporary anti-death penalty movement
   became convinced the death penalty was cruel and unnecessary^[4]) and
   Mennonites and other peace churches opposed the death penalty as well.
   Perhaps the most influential essay for the anti-death penalty movement
   death penalty as having little deterrent effect. After the American
   or abolish the death penalty in the United States. All three joined the
   which opposed capital punishment. Following colonial times, the
   anti-death penalty movement has risen and fallen throughout history. In
   Against Capital Punishment: Anti-Death Penalty Movement in America,
   Herbert H. Haines describes the presence of the anti-death penalty
   The anti-death penalty movement began to pick up pace in the 1830s and
   many Americans called for abolition of the death penalty. Anti-death
   Although some called for complete abolition of the death penalty, the
   executions to prisons or prison yards, the anti-death penalty movement
   The anti-death penalty gained some success by the end of the 1850s as
   The anti-death penalty gained momentum again at the end of the 19th
   anti-capital punishment sentiment. In addition, a “socially conscious”
   more humane and appease death penalty opponents. However, abolitionists
   reduce crime.^[6] Anti-death penalty activism of this period was
   national leagues, such as the Anti-capital Punishment Society of
   America and the Committee on Capital Punishment of the National
   prosecutors, and police opposed the abolition of capital punishment.
   They believed capital punishment held a strong deterrent capacity and
   trouble of the death penalty. They also organized campaigns for
   empirical evidence surrounding issues such as death penalty deterrence
   and racial discrimination within the capital punishment process.
   anti-capital punishment organizations. Among these groups were: a
   to Abolish Capital Punishment, the New Jersey Council to Abolish
   Capital Punishment, California’s People Against Capital Punishment, the
   New York Committee to Abolish Capital Punishment, the Oregon Council to
   Abolish the Death Penalty, and the national Committee to Abolish the
   Federal Death Penalty. In addition to growing organizations, the
   and Delaware abolished capital punishment. Oregon and Iowa followed
   the use of the death penalty except in cases of extreme serious
   constitutionality of the death penalty in the 1960s. Lawyers from the
   people from 1968 to 1976. The Anti-Death Penalty’s biggest victory of
   1972. The Supreme Court found the current state of the death penalty
   states did just that and the court eventually allowed the death penalty
Contemporary anti-death penalty movement[edit]
   The anti-death penalty movement slowly rose again after a brief moment
   of rest due to the reinstatement of capital punishment in many states.
   capital punishment today include Amnesty International USA, the
   Fund, and the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. The
   the use of capital punishment. Juveniles and the mentally ill or
   supported the death penalty for persons convicted of murder, while 31%
   of capital punishment, consistent with other polling since 2000.^[10]
   About half the American public says the death penalty is not imposed
   capital punishment deters murder and majorities believe at least one
   Western Europe, the death penalty is a controversial issue.^[15]
   caused the death penalty to be re-instated. Between 2000 and 2010,
   support for the return of capital punishment in Canada dropped from 44%
   capital punishment."^[17] Nonetheless, in a 2011 interview given to
   private support for capital punishment by saying, "I personally think
   there are times where capital punishment is appropriate." According to
   penalty is sometimes appropriate, while 61% said capital punishment is
   expressed in favor of the death penalty, with just more than half (52%)
   Capital punishment is often opposed on the grounds that innocent people
   will inevitably be executed. Supporters of capital punishment object
   Opponents of capital punishment have argued that the arbitrariness
   capital punishment should apply to persons with diminished mental
   death penalty is a deterrent is that it is used so rarely - only about
   the University of Pennsylvania, wrote that the death penalty "... is
   study that looked at all 3,054 U.S. counties over death penalty on lots
   incentives." Shepherd found that the death penalty had a deterrent
   The question of whether or not the death penalty deters murder usually
   shown a positive correlation between the death penalty and murder
   rates^[37] – in other words, they show that where the death penalty
   interpreted in either that the death penalty increases murder rates by
   retain or reintroduce the death penalty. However, supporters and
   The case for a large deterrent effect of capital punishment has been
   death penalty has any deterrent effect on individuals who commit
   across the U.S., the officers rank the death penalty last as a way of
   death penalty^[39] In fact, only one percent of the police chiefs
   surveyed thought that the death penalty was the primary focus for
   But some say the death penalty must be enforced even if the deterrent
   problems with capital punishment—potential error, irreversibility,
   argument for capital punishment, Albert Camus wrote:
          "Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to
          For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to
   death penalty prosecutor and federal judge Arthur L. Alarcón, and law
   has spent $4 billion on the death penalty since 1978, and death penalty
    1. ^ "Death Penalty". Gallup.
    2. ^ "10 reasons to oppose the death penalty". Death Penalty Focus.
       for Supporting and Opposing Capital Punishment in the USA: A
    4. ^ The death penalty: abolition in Europe. Council of Europe. 1999.
       Punishment: Anti-Death Penalty Movement in America, 1972-1994.
    8. ^ ^a ^b "Part I: History of the Death Penalty". Death Penalty
    9. ^ "2008 Gallup Death Penalty Poll". Gallup.com. Retrieved
   10. ^ ""Capital Punishment, 30 Years On: Support, but Ambivalence as
   12. ^ "Two-thirds of Americans say they favor the death penalty for
   13. ^ "Six in 10 Americans say the death penalty does not act as a
   14. ^ "Half of Americans say the death penalty is not imposed enough,
   15. ^ Death penalty information center "International Polls and
   16. ^ "Canadians split on pot, death penalty: poll". CBC News. 18 March
       favours death penalty but won't reinstate it". 680News. Retrieved
       death penalty Accessed March 2012: "Prior to the 2011 election,
       there are times where capital punishment is appropriate.'" "So how
       do Canadians feel about the death penalty? Shortly after the Prime
       66% of Canadians support the death penalty “in certain
       affirmed that 63% of those surveyed believe the death penalty is
       sometimes appropriate, while 61% said capital punishment is
   19. ^ Cass R. Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule: Is Capital Punishment
   20. ^ Death Penalty Information Center, Innocence and the Death Penalty
   25. ^ Barbara McCuen, "Does DNA Technology Warrant a Death Penalty
       Arbitrariness in Capital Punishment. Journal of Social Philosophy,
   28. ^ Fisher, Marc (8 March 2009). "Delegate's Stance On Death Penalty
   29. ^ "Death penalty for female offenders, January 1, 1973, through
   35. ^ ^a ^b Does Death Penalty Save Lives? A New Debate, New York
   36. ^ Death Penalty Information Center, Facts about Deterrence and the
       Death Penalty
   37. ^ Joanna M. Shepherd, Capital Punishment and the Deterrence of
   38. ^ Death Penalty Information Center, Discussion of Recent Deterrence
   39. ^ Deiter, Richard. "The Death Penalty is not an Effective Law
   40. ^ Deiter, Richard. "The Death Penalty is not an Effective Law
       Death Penalty Debacle".
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