1. Capital Punishment
Abolishing the Death Penalty the Death Penalty

2. There are too many mistakes…

3. Unequal
Treatment
According to The Innocence
Project, about 70 percent of
those exonerated by DNA
have been people of color

4. The Death
Penalty is not a
deterrent from
crime
Data from the FBI indicates
that the fourteen states
without Capital Punishment
in 2008 had homicide rates
at or below the national rate
(Amn)

6. The Death Penalty Costs Taxpayers More…
The California Death Penalty costs the state $137million per year compared to $11.5 million for a system
without the death penalty (Amn)

7. There is something we can do
• Become familiar with local/national laws and policies
• Connect with local Outreach Organizations (Innocence
Project, The Equal Justice Initiative)
• Spread awareness to others

8. Or we can choose to do nothing…

9. Equal Justice
According to U.S. Senator Russ
Feingold, “ we simply can not offer
equal justice to all Americans when
racial disparities plague the system
by which our society imposes the
ultimate punishment”(Deb 27).

10. Works Cited
• "DNA Exoneree Case Profiles." The Innocence Project. Web. 23 May 2013.
http://www.innocenceproject.org/know/
• 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
• "Know The Facts About Capital Punishment." U.S. Death Penalty Facts. Amnesty International USA,
Web. 25 Apr. 2013. http://www.amnestyusa.org/our-work/issues/death-penalty/us-death-penalty-facts
• “States with and without the Death Penalty.” .Death Penalty Information Center. Web.28 May 2013.
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/states-and-without-death-penalty
• "New ACLU Report Details Pervasive Racial Discrimination in America." American Civil Liberties Union.
Web. 26 Apr. 2013. http://www.aclu.org/human-rights/new-aclu-report-details-pervasive-racial-
discrimination-america
• "Race and the Death Penalty. Capital Punishment in Context." Welcome to Capital Punishment in Context
Capital Punishment in Context. Web. 26 Apr. 2013. www.capitalpunishmentincontext.org/issues