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What has research shown in regard to capital punishment as an effective deterrent?

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Why does the death penalty remain a form of punishment in the United States?

A) public opinion supports capital punishment
B) political support for the death penalty
C) both public opinion and political support
D) neither public opinion nor political support

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Research shows that the majority of Americans over the past two decades express which opinion?

In  Witherspoon v. Illinois , the Supreme Court upheld the practice of removing jurors who ____________________the death penalty.

In the Supreme Court case of McClesky v. Kemp (1987), the court ruled that the Sixth Amendment requires that aggravating circumstances must be found by a jury, not a judge.

The review process can take 10 or more years from conviction to execution.

In the United States, what is the public opinion related to the death penalty?

Those correctional staff who carry out an execution are referred to as the __________  _____________.

Which type of attempts to calculate the impact that a well-publicized execution has on the short-term murder rate?

Which Supreme Court case dealt specifically with aggravating factors relating to the death penalty?

Recent research indicates that most people on death row are of what race?

The majority of executions occur in which U.S. state?

Which of the following is not a retentionist argument for the death penalty?

In which case did the Supreme Court rule that execution of the mentally handicapped was unconstitutional?

The trend worldwide is to:

All of the following are reasons that a majority of death penalty convictions have been overturned except :

Based on recent empirical studies, it has been found that capital punishment is in fact a major deterrent for those who maybe considering the act of murder.

A death-qualified jury means that:

The case of Pulley v. California mandated that at least 10 percent of the jury hearing a death penalty case must be similar in race or gender to the defendant.

Retentionists argue that the death penalty is used in a racist fashion and violates constitutional guarantees of due process and equal protection.