Examine capital punishment in the United States

What will be an ideal response?


The most severe sentence used in the United States is capital punishment, or execution; capital punishment is limited to the crime of murder in the first degree. More than 15,000 confirmed executions have been carried out in America under civil authority; today, there are more than 3,000 people on death row. Thirty-five states and the federal government retain the death penalty as a form of punishment. The method used in the majority of executions is lethal injection. Some 250 wrongfully convicted criminals have been exonerated in recent years because of DNA evidence.

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Idiographic explanations often focus on which of the following factors?

A. social actors B. social places C. social times D. all of these

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Describe the crime of election fraud using examples.

What will be an ideal response?

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The serial killer examined in Bichler et al.'s (2017) is also known as ______.

A. the Boston Strangler B. the Green River Killer C. The Long Island Killer D. Jack the Ripper

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In bias crimes that relate to acts of expressive conduct, Texas law is content neutral to avoid potential conflict with the ________ Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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