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What exactly is the death penalty?
It is the ultimate legal punishment where a suspect, after being proven guilty is executed by the governing law, such as a state or country. In the United States the citizens of the individual states decide if they want and will allow capital punishment for their worst criminals. In fact, the United States is one of the few industrialized nations that still allow the death penalty as punishment for capital murder.
Does Spain allow capital punishment?
Capital punishment in Spain was abolished for all crimes in 1995
Was capital and corporal punishment used to control the criminally insane?
If they can really prove that the suspect is indeed insane, the judge would not allow capital punishment to be used on them.
Does Wisconsin allow the electric chair?
No. Capital punishment in Wisconsin was abolished in 1853.
How many states in the US allow the death penalty?
As of October 2009, 35 states use the death penalty, although not all states use it frequently.For a list of states that use capital punishment, see Related Questions, below.
What states allow bond for capital murder?
None
Why does California allow capital punishment?
The voters of California believe that there are some crimes which are so terrible that they deserve to be punished by death.
What is the percentage of countries with the death penalty to those with out?
According to Amnesty International, the following information represents the death penalty status of world countries, as of January 2009.Legal StatusNo Capital Punishment................92.......47.2%Abolished for Ordinary Crimes...... 9....... 4.6%Abolished in Practice...................33.......16.9%Use Capital Punishment...............61.......31.3%Total Sample............................195......100.0%** Statistics do not equal 100% due to roundingPractical StatusNot Practicing Capital Punishment.........125........64.1%Allow Capital Punishment*.....................70........35.9%* The nine countries that allow capital punishment only under extraordinary circumstances occupy a grey zone between extremes, but are included with those that actively practice capital punishment. To view a world map of countries by death penalty status, see Related Links, below.
Approximately what proportion of countries around the world had the death penalty in 2008?
According to Amnesty International, the following information represents the death penalty status of world countries, as of January 2009.Legal StatusNo Capital Punishment................92.......47.2%Abolished for Ordinary Crimes...... 9....... 4.6%Abolished in Practice...................33.......16.9%Use Capital Punishment...............61.......31.3%Total Sample............................195......100.0%** Statistics do not equal 100% due to roundingPractical StatusNot Practicing Capital Punishment.........125........64.1%Allow Capital Punishment*.....................70........35.9%* The nine countries that allow capital punishment only under extraordinary circumstances occupy a grey zone between extremes, but are included with those that actively practice capital punishment. To view a world map of countries by death penalty status, see Related Links, below.
What other options are there besides jail-16-year-olds that commit a crime?
House arrest or paying for what they have done by working at the place they robbed for instance.
Does Michigan allow capital punishment?
No, Michigan does not have the death penalty. They only executed 13 individuals before the laws changed 1976. The maximum sentence is life without parole.
What countries don't use death penalty?
The United States is the only western nation that still uses capital punishment. The United States, Japan and Taiwan are the only fully developed countries that still engage in this practice.It is important to note that, while the US Supreme Court currently considers capital punishment constitutional, many states do not. Fourteen states and the District of Columbia have formally abolished the death penalty; New York has declared part of their capital punishment statute unconstitutional, and is not engaging in this practice; thirty-five states still allow the death penalty for certain crimes, but vary in frequency of use.AnswerIf by Western countries you mean industrialized democracies, then only The United States of America, Japan and Taiwan currently use the death penalty. In the USA 36 states, the federal government and the U.S. military have a death penalty statute. As of now South Korea has a moratorium on the death penalty.
