Death Penalty

Death to Capital Punishment!

This past May,… References and Footnotes “Nebraska Bans Death Penalty, Defying a Veto,” New York Times, May 27, 2015, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/28/us/nebraska-abolishes-death-penalty.html ↩ Pema Levy, “One in 25 Sentenced to Death in the U.S. Is Innocent, Study Claims,” Newsweek, April 28, 2014, accessed June 3, 2015, http://www.newsweek.com/one-25-executed-us-innocent-study-claims-248889 ↩ “Abolish the Death Penalty,” Intelligence Squared Debates, April 15, 2015, accessed June 3, 2015, http://intelligencesquaredus.org/debates/upcoming-debates/item/1254-abolish-the-death-penalty ↩ Kent S. Scheidegger, “Mend It, Don’t End It,”April, 2011, accessed June 2, 2015, http://www.cjlf.org/deathpenalty/ConnDPReport2011.pdf ↩ Peter Singer, “The Death Penalty — Again,” October 12, 2011, accessed June 2, 2015. ↩ “U.S. Executions Since 1976,” The Clark County Prosecuting Attorney, October 1, 2014, accessed June 3, 2015, http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/usexecute.htm ↩“Cruel, Unusual and Arbitrary,” U.S. News, September 29, 2014, accessed June 3, 2015, http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2014/09/29/the-death-penalty-is-ineffective-and-indefensible ↩