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Americans More Skeptical of Any Deterrent Effect of Death Penalty

A recent Harris Poll found that only 41% of Americans believe that the death penalty deters crime, marking the smallest number of such respondents in 27 years of this poll. Only 37% of those polled would continue to support capital punishment if they believed "that quite a substantial number of innocent people are convicted of murder." Overall, 69% percent of those polled said that they support capital punishment. The poll was conducted in December 2003. (PR Newswire, January 7, 2004)

37 States with Executions.

Each state has a different way of executing, and this is how each state does it:
Alabama: Electrocution, Lethal Injection 
Arizona: Gas Chamber, Lethal Injection
Arkasas: Electrocution, Lethal Injection
California: Gas Chamber, Lethal Injection
Colorado: Lethal Injection
Delaware: Lethal Injection
Florida: Electrocution
Georgia: Electrocution
Idaho: Firing Squad, Lethal Injection
Illinois: Lethal Injection
Indiana: Electrocution
Kansas: Lethal Injection* ``
Kentucky: Electrocution
Louisiana: Lethal Injection
Maryland: Gas Chamber
Mississippi: Gas Chamber, Lethal Injection
Missouri: Lethal Injection
Montana: Hanging, Lethal Injection
Nebraska: Electrocution
Nevada: Lethal Injection
New Hampshire: Lethal Injection*
New Jersey: Lethal Injection*
New Mexico: Lethal Injection
New York: Lethal Injection* ``

North Carolina: Gas Chamber, Lethal Injection
Ohio: Electrocutoin, Lethal Injection
Oklahoma: Lethal Injection
Oregon: Lethal Injection
Pennsylvania: Lethal Injection
South Carolina: Electrocution
South Dakota: Lethal Injection*
Tennessee: Electrocution
Texas: Lethal Injection
Utah: Firing Squad, Lethal Injection
Virginia: Electrocution
Washington: Hanging, Lethal Injection
Wyoming: Lethal Injection

Connecutcit: Lethal Injection*

*Indicates jurisdiction with no executions since 1976.

``Indicates their state legislature declared their death penalty statutes were unconstitutional.

Pending US Executions

DATE

STATE

NAME

November

 

 

11/28/06

PA

FRANK CHESTER –stayed

11/29/06

OH

JOHN SPIRKO -stayed

December

 

 

12/1/06

NC

GUY LEGRANDE

12/5/06

OH

JEROME HENDERSON

12/13/06

FL

ANGEL DIAZ

January

 

 

1/10/07

TX

ALBERTO CARLOS

1/17/07

TX

JONATHAN MOORE

1/24/07

TX

LARRY SWEARINGEN

1/25/07

TX

RONALD CHAMBERS

1/30/07

TX

CHRISTOPHER SWIFT

February

 

 

2/22/07

TN

EDWARD HARBISON

MARCH

 

 

3/6/07

TX

ROBERT PEREZ

April

 

 

4/11/07

TN

PERVIS T. PAYNE

4/25/07

TN

CHARLES RICE

May

 

 

5/9/07

TN

STEVEN JAMES ROLINS

5/16/07

TN

DAVID IVY

5/23/07

TN

WILLIAM GLENN RODGERS

August

 

 

8/16/07

TN

LEONARD YOUNG





This page was last updated on 11-17-06.