Introduction: Georgia is one of the thirty – five states that allow the death penalty. Since 1735 Georgia continues the death penalty. The most famous trails of the death penalty have originated in Georgia. Today in more modern times we have changed our methods tremendously. I will elaborate more about the death penalty in Georgia and a famous inmate and their background information. Topic I. Georgia Institutions and practices of the death penalty. A. History of the death penalty in Georgia. B. Statistical information on the death penalty in Georgia. C. Reason for putting a person on death row in Georgia. Topic II. Georgia’s process for putting someone on death row. A. The sentence process for a Georgia death row inmate. B. The mental and physical conditions of the death row inmate. C. Length of execution date for in an inmate. Topic III. Warren Hill on death row in Georgia. A. His demographic information and life before his sentence. B. Criminal charge and sentence date C. His current status execution or turnover date. Topic I. Georgia Institutions and practices of the death penalty. A. History of the death penalty in Georgia Georgia started their capital punishment in 1735.(DPIC) The first person to be executed in Georgia was” Alice Ryley”. She killed her master “Will Wise.” In Georgia the first method of execution was hanging. Fortunately, the last hangings occurred in 1925 would have been to public which would be impermissible in the courts. So they transferred them to Columbus, Georgia. Here in Columbus they could legally execute them. By 1924 Georgia terminated the idea of hanging instead they performed electrocutions. Additionally, this was the same year they installed the “electric chair “in Georgia Sta... ... middle of paper ... ...llenge-over-lethal-injection-drug/277776/ DCOR(2014). Department of Corrections in Georgia : Death penalty statistics and yearly statistical information. Retrieved on 12 April 2014. http://www.dcor.state.ga.us/pdf/TheDeathPenaltyinGeorgia.pdf http://www.dcor.state.ga.us/Research/Monthly/Profile_death_row_2014_03.pdf DPIC (2014) . Death Penalty Information Center. Georgia : State by State and General Information: Sentencing inmates and Intellectual disability and death penalty. Retrieved on 12 April 2014. http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/state_by_state http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/2013-sentencing#Inmates http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/intellectual-disability-and-death-penalty Foley, M. (2014). American Library Association: Toward Understanding the Death Penalty debate. Retrieved on 12 April 2014. http://www.ala.org/acrl/choice/sampleessay
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After only four short years, thirty-seven states passed new death penalty laws designed to overcome the Supreme Court 's concerns about the arbitrary imposition of the death penalty. Statutes instructing bifurcated trials, with separate guilt- innocent phase and sentencing phase were created, as well as imposing standards to guide the discretion of juries and judges in imposing capital sentences, were upheld in a series of Supreme Court decisions in 1976 in Gregg v. Georgia. According to Mandery (2012), “ Georgia reformed its death-sentencing scheme in three significant ways: (1) it bifurcated trials; (2) it created a set of statutory aggravating factors, at least one of which must be found b the jury to be proved beyond a reasonable doubt; and (3) it required the automatic appeal of all death sentences to the Georgia State Supreme Court to determine whether the sentence was disproportionate compared to sentences imposed in similar cases”(p.135). By creating these three new statutes, the states wanted to insure that arbitrariness would not be part of the court procedure. “The scheme of aggravating factors is much more significant from the
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Since colonial times, Georgia has been associated with capital punishment, with executions recorded as early as the 1730s. Crimes including murder, rape and robbery were punishable by capital punishment. Prior to the 1920s, hanging was a method used to execute individuals committing criminal acts. Others, were condemned by a firing squad and burned to death. In 1924, Georgia first utilized the electric chair to execute inmates. Electrocution overthrew hanging as the primary method of execution until 2001, where the Georgia Supreme Court declared the practice as “unconstitutional and unusual”. After that declaration, Georgia shifted to using lethal injection. Georgia proceeded to execute more than 900 people, making it the fourth highest number
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The death penalty has been accepted in the United States, but was not always approved by the people. In the late eighteen hundreds there was enough attention gathered to the death penalty to lead to restrictions. Many northern states abolished the practice all together like Michigan, Wisconsin, and Rhode Island (Wilson p.45). Pennsylvania in 1794 decided to revises its laws on the death penalty. The state decided to use the penalty mainly for first-degree murder. Around this time many states where deciding t...
In the United States, many crimes are considered to be punishable by a life sentence or a sentence of a few years. However, many crimes have earned people capital punishment, also known as the death penalty. The first known death penalty was acknowledge by a legal document known as the Code of Hummarubi. In this document, written in the 1700s, it is mentioned that twenty-five crimes were punished by death. The crimes included being unfaithful to one's partner and even helping slaves escape (Guernsey, 2009). By 1846, the state of Michigan became one of the first US states to abolish the death penalty for all committed crimes. Michigan now replaces the death penalty with life imprisonment (Bohm, 2007). However, then the inventor Thomas Edison conducted his experiment on the use of electrocution on animals. In 1890, New York State became the first state to practice execution by electrocution on an electric chair on William Kemmler. This method then became a preferred method of execution (Guernsey, 2009). By 1924, the first lethal gas in American history was carried out in Carson City, Nev. It was known as a less severe execution compared to hanging, firing squad, or electrocution (The history channel, 2009). Many states, including Washington State, Connecticut, and recently Maryland have suspended the idea of the death penalty. Even though many perpetrators have committed a criminal offence and have affected many families, and the families might want the worst for that person, no one deserves to have to be put on death row because it is inhumane, and it is not teaching the future generations of what Americans value. The death penalty should not be practices on any criminal because it is inhumane, it is expensive, and many criminals m...
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