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__The capitol punishment is Capital punishment, also referred to as the death penalty, and is the judicially ordered execution of a prisoner as a punishment for a serious crime, often called a capital offense or a capital crime. Some jurisdictions that practice capital punishment restrict its use to a small number of criminal offences, principally treason and murder. Prisoners who have been sentenced to death are usually kept segregated from other prisoners in a special part of the prison pending their execution.
 * __1. What is capital punishment?__**__

__Persons convicted of capital murder should serve a **minimum** of 25 years in prison before the possibility of consideration for parole. Please note: consideration for parole in no way suggests an inmate will receive parole. Parole boards must abide by strict but fair standards in deciding who should receive parole. The abolition of parole endangers prison workers. In certain cases, imprisonment should be for life, With no possibility of parole - ever. While in prison, prisoners should work in jobs which are not slave-like and allow for some dignity and purpose of life for the inmate. Such work situations create safer conditions for guards and others who work in prisons. A portion of the prisoners' earnings should go to pay for their incarceration, and a portion should go into a fund for the victims of violent crime and their survivors. This would allow for a restitution fund for social, psychological and religious help for victims and survivor families. Such funds could also provide financial help for families which have lost a wage earner to murder.
 * __2. Are there any alternatives to capital punishment?__**__

__Execution Method used in California is the Lethal Injection and Lethal Gas.
 * __3. What type of execution method does__** **__California__** **__currently use?__**__
 * California** - Inmate may elect lethal injection or lethal gas. If no election, then Lethal Injection. If one method invalid, then the other method.

__It means that you are in favor of and support the capital punishment. http://coe.west.asu.edu/students/ahudson/WebQuestGlossary.html
 * __4. What is meant by [|Pro] capital punishment?__**__

__It means that you are against the capital punishment
 * __5. What is meant by [|Con] (Anti Capital Punishment)?__**__

That you are legally authorized postponement of some activity or suspension of an on going activity. http://coe.west.asu.edu/students/ahudson/WebQuestGlossary.html
 * __6. [|Moratorium] means?__**

1982 people have been sentenced from 1996 to 2005.
 * __7. How many people were given capital punishment in__** **__California__** **__in the last 10 years?__**


 * __8. How many people were given capital punishment in__** **__California__** **__since 1976?__**
 * 7,523 people have been given the capitol punishment in** **California** **since 1976 to present day.**

There are 38 serious categories of Offenses: criminal Organization, terrorism, tracking of human beings, exploitation of children and children pornography, illicit trafficking in arms, ammunition and explosives, corruption, fraud including fraud portraying to the financial interest of the European Union , money laundry and counterfeiting of money including Euro.
 * __9. For what crimes were they given capital punishment?__**

__Since March of 2005 the death penalty for children has been ruled cruel and unusual punishment by the Supreme Court, and therefore overturned. Prior to this 19 states with the death penalty did not allow execution of juveniles but more than thirty-five states have the death penalty for juveniles and in these states 22 people in these states where executed under the age of eighteen.
 * __11. Have any juveniles been given capital punishment?__**__

__In the past hundred years more than 40 women have been executed, and as of July 2005 there are 54 women on death row. That is about a little more than 1 percent of the around 3,400 people on death row.
 * __12. What is the number of women who have been given capital punishment?__**__

__“The Capital punishment is about portraying people as devils," says Leigh Beinen, "But women are usually seen as less threatening." Needless to say sometimes this statement is very true. It is easy to see a man who killed his cheating wife guilty, but you see a woman that was abused and arrested for killing her spouse as a victim. Also, I think that fewer women are given the death penalty, because more men than women cause crimes.
 * __13. Do both women and men get capital punishment equally?__**__

__Unfortunately all races are not given the capitol punishment equally this not occur in a particular region and it has stayed this way over time. One reason the decisions might be racially driven is because 98% of the major decision makers are white and about one percent is African-American.
 * __14. Are all races given capital punishment equally?__**__

__People are not sure if capital punishment is or is not a violation of the constitution?
 * __18. Is it a violation of their constitutional rights?__**__

1. The death penalty is racist. 2. **Crime statistic reports over the last 100 years have NOT shown that capital punishment deters violent crimes in this country** 3. The death penalty condems the innocent 4. The death penalty is not deterrent to a violent crime 5. the death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment
 * __19.__** __**What are five objections to capital punishment?**__
 * __20.__** __**What are five arguments for capital punishment?**
 * 21.** **What is current public opinion of capital punishment?**__

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 * __22.__** __**What are the myths concerning capital punishment?**

__If the murderer is killed and the executer is lowering themselves to the murderers level in other words the executer is degrading themselves.
 * __23. What moral concerns are brought up by capital punishment?__**__

__Supreme Court However, in the early 1960s, it was suggested that the death penalty was a "cruel and unusual" punishment, and therefore unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment. In 1958, the Supreme Court had decided in //Trop v. Dulles// (356 U.S. 86), that the Eighth Amendment contained an "evolving standard of decency that marked the progress of a maturing society." Although //Trop// was not a death penalty case, abolitionists applied the Court's logic to executions and maintained that the United States had, in fact, progressed to a point that its "standard of decency" should no longer tolerate the death penalty.
 * __24) Who decides if a law is constitutional or not?__**__

__**Simpler procedures:** The dual criminality principle - which means that both the country requesting extradition and the country that should arrest and return the alleged criminal, recognize and accept that what he or she is alleged to have done, is a crime - is abolished for 32 serious categories of offences. These include participation in a criminal organisation, terrorism, trafficking in human beings, sexual exploitation of children and child pornography, illicit trafficking in arms, ammunition and explosives, corruption, fraud including fraud pertaining to the financial interest of the European Union, money laundering and counterfeiting of money including the euro. European arrest warrants issued in respect of crimes or alleged crimes on this list have to be executed by the arresting state irrespective of whether or not the definition of the offence is the same, providing that the offence is serious enough and punished by at least 3 years' imprisonment in the Member State that has issued the warrant. For offences which are not in the list or beyond the 3 years' threshold, the dual criminality principle still applies.
 * __25) What are the [|procedures] for a person given the death penalty?__**__

__ Arnold Schwarzenegger Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger State Capitol Building Sac.
 * __26) What is the name and address of the governor? Of your member of congress? Of your senator?__**__

Senator Barbara Boxer United States Senate 331 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 Sacramento, CA 95814

Senator Dianne Feinstein United States Senate 331 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510

__Sending a letter to the editorial: A Sentinel Newspaper Executive Offices 3800 Crenshaw Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90008 (323) 299-9800
 * __27) How do you contact your local paper to submit a letter?__**__

__Yes because They did not have technology (to prove stuff like different DNA’s) They could have messed up in their report
 * __28) Are innocent people ever given capital punishment?__**__

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 * __29)Interesting facts