Death Penalty
By: Cheyanne McKinley and Tate Coblentz
The History
The death penalty laws started as far back as the 18th century B.C. from the code King Hammaurabi of Babylon and then continue on since then. Crucifixion, drowning, beating to death, burning alive, and impalement were the most common ways they used back then.
In the 1960s people started to challenge the death penalty. Before though the fifth, eighth and the fourteenth admendments seem to allow the idea of it. Then people start to think the death penalty was "cruel and unuasal" punishment to others. After the Trop v. Dulles case in the late 1960s, the Supreme court fixed the way the death penalty was looked at. Since then there has been many modifcations to the death penalty.
The Constitutionality of the Death Penalty in America
Death penalty laws all over the world
Red: Countries that allow the death penalty Blue: Countries that dont allow the death penalty
Racial Discrimination
Shows whites to black on death row
Many Sayings
Many people thought killing someone was wrong just because they killed someone else. A kill to make up for a kill
The Death Penalty Today
Electric Chair
The first electrical chair was made in 1890
Lethal Injection
The kind of tables that the lethal injection would happen
Hanging
Hanging was usually done outside, so that everyone can see
Citations
- Death Penalty Information Center, , ed. "Introduction to the Death Penalty." Death Penalty Information Center. N.p., n.d. Web. 8 Nov 2012. <http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/part-i-history-death-penalty
- Death Penalty Information Center, , ed. "Constitutionality of the Death Penalty in America." Death Penalty Information Center. N.p., n.d. Web. 8 Nov 2012. <http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/part-i-history-death-penalty
- Death Penalty Information Center, , ed. "The Death Penalty Today ." Death Penalty Information Center. N.p., n.d. Web. 8 Nov 2012. <http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/part-ii-history-death-penalty