CRM/LAW C7 Lecture 24: Week 4 Lecture 6 - Changing Views on the Death Penalty
8 Sep 2016
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Deterrence no longer justifiable argument
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Incapacitation no longer justifiable argument
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Caprice and bias exist
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Cost no longer justifiable argument
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Changes in Death Penalty Arguments
$90,000/year/inmate to have a person in prison
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$137,000,000/year to do death penalty
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$232,000,000 to maintain death penalty in the US/fix it
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$11.5M/year for life without parole
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Dollars and sense
Deterrence?
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Incapacitation?
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Real evidence in support of that
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Bias?
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Not really an argument anymore
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Cost?
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Are we concerned that the death penalty makes mistakes?
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Miscarriages of justice?
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The innocence project is used to do DNA testing to get innocent people out of prison.
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Exoneration of innocent people, hopefully
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Every time they have the wrong guy, the real perp is out there and commits more crimes
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Committed more than one murder
48% of the time, the real perp has been identified with the DNA
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95% of cases where you have misidentification of suspects(?)
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Reform - state and federal legislation
Take on all policy issues
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Works closely with police, prosecutors
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WATCH - The Innocent Projects
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"List of Those Freed From Death Row"
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The use of DNA is common, but not always the case
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READ - The Innocence List
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Remains an effective and persuasive argument in favor of the death penalty
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Retribution?
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Retentionist countries - countries that have retained the death penalty
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Most of the world is now abolitionist
Abolitionists - they don't carry out the death penalty, or retain the death penalty for the
absolute worse crimes (treason, etc.)
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Other countries are carrying out far more executions than us, but we still maintain the
death penalty legally in most of the country.
Trend of executions is in decline
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Trends in how people think about the death penalty?
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Changes in Death Penalty Arguments
Week 4: Lecture 6 - Changing Views on the Death Penalty
Wednesday, August 24, 2016
10:01 PM
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Document Summary
Week 4: lecture 6 - changing views on the death penalty. ,000,000 to maintain death penalty in the us/fix it. The innocence project is used to do dna testing to get innocent people out of prison. Every time they have the wrong guy, the real perp is out there and commits more crimes. 48% of the time, the real perp has been identified with the dna. 95% of cases where you have misidentification of suspects(?) The use of dna is common, but not always the case. Remains an effective and persuasive argument in favor of the death penalty. Retentionist countries - countries that have retained the death penalty. Abolitionists - they don"t carry out the death penalty, or retain the death penalty for the absolute worse crimes (treason, etc. ) Other countries are carrying out far more executions than us, but we still maintain the death penalty legally in most of the country.
