Death Row

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Dec 7 1982
first lethal injection

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Florida cost for execution increased by 600 percent

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from 3.4 million to 24 million

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favor for the death penalty went up until the 1980's

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favor for life without parole has increased slightly over the years almost hitting 50 percent

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4. Oklahoma first state to adopt the lethal injection as the death penalty

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Texas tho 5 years later was the first to put a man to death that way
Dec 7 1982

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1976 statutes and 3 reforms

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Texas, Georgia, and Florida reinstated the death penalty

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executions were 1000 + per state

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Now they are under 200 except for Texas which is around 400

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as of 2004 114 countries around the world have abolished the death penalty

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Currently, over 115 people in 25 states have been released from death row because of innocence since 1973.

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In 1994, President Clinton signed the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act that expanded the federal death penalty to some 60 crimes, 3 of which do not involve murder. The exceptions are espionage, treason, and drug trafficking in large amounts.

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In the United States numbers of death sentences are steadily declining from 300 in 1998 to 143 in 2003.

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over 78 countries retain the death penalty, including China, Iran, the United States, and Vietnam all of which rank among the highest for international executions in 2003.

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