1. The Death Penalty
Presented by: Leah Jackson

2. “The care of human life and
happiness, and not their
destruction, is the first and
only object of good
government.” -Thomas
Jefferson

4. The Death Penalty also
known as capital punishment,
is the lawful imposition of
death as punishment for
crimes. It is the act of killing
or executing an individual
who is found guilty of a
serious crime, by the
government.

5. The Death Penalty Past
- The death penalty started in the colonial times.
- Methods that were used to kill individuals were
hanging, beheading, quartering, boiling and stoning.
- Executions were carried out for such capital
offenses as marrying a Jew, not confessing to a
crime, and treason.

6. The Costs of the Death
Penalty
• In Indiana, the total cost of the death penalty is
38% greater than the total cost of life without
parole.
• In New York, it costs approximately $23 million
per person.
• In Tennessee, the death penalty trials cost 48%
more than a life sentence trial(Bedau and
Cassell).

7. DEATH PENALTY DETERRENCE
- 84% of our former and present presidents of the
country’s top academic criminological societies say
that the death penalty does not act as a deterrent
to murder(Radelet and Lacock).

8. What Happens on Execution Day?
A Death Penalty Documentary.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1
htDY230jx4

9. The drugs that are used today for the Death Penalty.

10. Preventing Murder
How would you spend tens of millions of
dollars a year ?
Prevention policy: treatment for mentally ill
individuals, drug/alcohol treatment?
Public Safety: Make more resources available
for the community and social services?

11. Conclusion
If the society knew more, would we begin to
move away from death penalty?

12. Works Cited
Free Photos from www.photobucket.com
Video from youtube.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1htDY230jx4
Bedau, Hugo Adam., and Paul G. Cassell. Debating the Death
Penalty: Should America Have Capital Punishment? :
The Experts on Both Sides Make Their Best Case. New
York: Oxford UP, 2004. Print.
Radelet, Matthew, and Tony Lacock. "Facts about Deterrence
and the Death Penalty." Death Penalty Information
Center. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Mar. 2013.
<http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/facts-about-
deterrence-and-death-penalty>.