Courts and Capital Punishment

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This paper examines how thousands of people every year are convicted and sentenced to the death penalty or life without parole and discusses the difference between the death penalty and life imprisonment. It includes statistics about state opinions and inmate facts.

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"Upon closer examination, an issue can be made of the smaller number of executions compared to the number of people under sentence of death. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, at yearend 2002, 37 states the federal prison held 3,557 prisoners under the death sentence (all for committing murder), but only 71 were executed. In 1954, 147 prisoners were under sentence of death and only 81 were executed. Many condemned inmates today are more likely to die of old age then lethal injection. Of the 6912 people under the death sentence between 1977 and 2002 only 12% were executed. (Bonczar)."

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