Do you believe that death penalty is needed in the USA? Do you think that it should be abolished in the US?

35 states have the death penalty although far fewer execute anyone. STATES WITH THE DEATH PENALTY (35) Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wyoming Plus U.S. Military & U.S. Gov’t In 2009, there were 52 executions, carried out by just 11 states: Texas 24 executions Alabama 6 Virginia 3 Oklahoma 3 Ohio 5 Georgia 3 South Carolina 2 Florida 2 Tennessee 2 Indiana 1 Missouri 1.

Death penalty:legally permitted in 34 states permit executions by state laws Some states have a moratorium in place and executions have been reduced to life imprisonment..http://www.stateline.org/live/ViewPage.a... A majority of Americans,my self included, still support executions as the ultimate punishment, and the nation as a whole is far from abolishing the death penalty. Constitutional experts say the current U.S. Supreme Court is unlikely to accept any cases seeking to overturn the death penalty system. Although executions are rare at the federal level, the Clinton and Bush administrations greatly expanded the potential use of capital punishment for some drug and terrorism crimes.

And former U.S. Attorney General John D. Ashcroft directed his prosecutors to seek the death penalty in many cases, sometimes overruling local prosecutors who had decided against it. At the state and local level, many prosecutors, victims' advocates and lawmakers remain staunch supporters of the death penalty, which they view as a necessary and effective deterrent to crime.

Kansas officials are appealing the state court decision against their death penalty system in federal courts. Bills to reinstate the death penalty have been introduced this year in many of the 12 states that lack it, including in Hawaii and Iowa, although neither of those bills came up for a vote.

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