Capital Punishment | Analysis

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1. How many states have the death penalty today? Are there any common denominators between these states? Your presentation should include a historic overview and an account of the current trend.

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The green squares show the 27 states in the U.S that has death penalty today. And 3 of them Have a Moratorium on the Death

Penalty wich is these orange squares, and that means that these 3 states can temporarely delay executions, and if we take a look on the blue squares, we see the states that has abolished the deat panelty.

( Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky. Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Wyoming.

Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, DC, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin)

If you take a look on this map of the US, you can see that most of the states that allows death penalty, is close to each other, wich shows a little connection between these states.

Another connection between these states is most of them are voting for the same party, but surprisingly the voting is quit spread out.

2. How many Americans support the death penalty today? Research historic highs and lows and account for
some of the possible reasons for these fluctuations.

You may choose to include a graphic overview in your presentation. https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/06/02/most-americans-favor-the-death-penalty-despite-concerns-abo
ut-its-administration/

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/06/11/us-support-for-death-penalty-ticks-up-2018/

In todays america More Americans favor than oppose the death penalty: 60% of U.S. adults favor the death penalty for people convicted of murder. About 39% oppose the death penalty.

And america in 2018 we can see that also as before, americans favor than oppose the death penalty: 54% of us adults favors the death panelty and 39% oppose the death panelty

if we compare these 2 surveys you can clearly tell that there hasn't been so many changes In today's america majority favors the death penalty, but 8/10 see some risk in executing the innocent.

More Americans favor than oppose the death penalty: 60% of U.S. adults favor the death penalty for people convicted of murder, including 27% who strongly favor it.

About four-in-ten (39%) oppose the death penalty, with 15% strongly opposed, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.