Capital Punishment

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In this article, the writer discusses at what age the death penalty should become an option for punishment for juvenile capital offenses and looks at relevant statistics. An analysis of data is performed through calculations of the answers provided in the questionnaire. Data analysis is further offered through a review of available, peer-reviewed, recent literature related to the death penalty in individual states and in some of the states as based on Department of Justice Bureau Statistics. The writer also considers trends in legislation, public opinion trends and trends in recent case-law.

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Abstract
Statement of Problem
Hypothesis
Data Collection
Data Analysis
Prediction of Research
Literature Review
Summary of Review of Literature and Findings of the Study
Works Cited

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"Department of Justice Bureau of Statistics Report for 2004 shows trending related to capital punishment rising from 1974 into the early eighties and continuing to rise until the last few years of the 1990's decade and declining steadily to below the 1974 rate. In 1974 there were 149 individuals put to death in U.S. prisons, the figure rose showing a number of 223 in 1981 rising to 299 in 1986 and topping out in the year of 1996 at 317 prisoners executed for the year. In the year 2004 only 128 prisoners were put to death by execution in the U.S. The following is a listing of the number of executions by individual U.S. State totals spanning the years 1977 through 2004."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Capital Punishment (2004) U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Capital Punishment 2004 Online available at: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/c p04.pdf.
• Cothern, Lynn (2000) Juveniles and the Death Penalty - Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention November 2000 Online available at: http://www.ncjrs.org/html/ojjdp/coordcouncil/index.html.
• Children and the Death Penalty: executions worldwide since 1990 ECOSOC - (UN) Economic and Social Council; ICCPR - International Covenant on Civil and political Rights; UN-United Nations; and USA - United States of America. Amnesty International ACT 50/007/2002 25 September 2002 Online available at: http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/engACT500072002?OpenDocument&of=THEMES/DEATH+PENALTY.
• Catalano, Shannon M. Ph.D BJS Statiscian (2003) Crime Victimization September 2004 Bureau of justice Statistics: National Crime Victimization Survey Online available at: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/cv03.pdf
• The Death Penalty (2004) Amnesty International October 2004. Online available at: http://web.amnesty.org/pages/deathpenalty-index-eng.

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