How many Televised executions in the US?
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There have never been any. The last public execution was a hanging in 1936.
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Capital punishment is called for in many cases...this should be one.
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On average in the US, since capital punishment was reinstated, inmates stay on death row 11.72 years. The current inmate population has been on death row an average of 12.83 years.
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The electric chair is no longer in use. Executions these days are carried out by lethal injection.
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Not a lot: http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?did=230&scid=24
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Yes, in thirty eight states, the federal (civilian) law and the military.  If you are going to commit murder, better do it in the north-east or northern midwest.  Whatever you do, don't do it in the south.  In Florida, there are stricter rules for euthanizing your pet dog than there are for executing criminals.
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I doubt it was hard to find many people to celebrate the sentencing. I just hope they put the hanging on live international TV, or, heck even pay-per-view. I'll shell out bucks for that. The death of that mass murderer will be a joyous day for the world.
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According to tradition, the noose used in executions had six to eight coils. It is an unfounded urban legend that the hangman's noose is supposed to have 13 coils. This legend may have come about from scaffolding that was ten feet tall and having standard 9 inch risers for steps thus creating 13 steps; the number 13 being considered unlucky.
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Lethal injection is used in almost all cases in the United States, it has the least charges against it of being inhumane.\n\nThere has recently been issue taken with lethal injection, however. A group of anesthesiologists refused to take part in one in California since they felt it may be a violation of the Hippocratic oath to not stop the procedure if the inmate appeared to be in pain.\n\nIn many states the procedure is actually performed by paramedics since doctors may be able to lose their license for taking part.
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Capital Murder or First Degree Murder but depends on the state in the U.S.
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Because we still do use the electric chair.\n\nVirginia executes first inmate by electric chair in over two years\nJuly 21, 2006\n\n[JURIST] Virginia [JURIST news archive] executed a man Thursday night using the electric chair, the first execution by electrocution in the country in over two years. Brandon Wayne Hedrick, convicted of the rape and murder of a 23.... [more]\n\nHere is the same article, but from the Washington Post:\n\nhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/20/AR2006072001852.html\n\nEDIT: As of 2006, the only places in the world which still reserve the electric chair as an option for execution are the U.S. states of Alabama, Florida, Nebraska, South Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia. (Oklahoma and Illinois laws provide for its use should lethal injection ever be held to be unconstitutional.) Except for Nebraska, where it remains the only method of execution, inmates in the other states must select it or lethal injection. In the state of Florida, on July 8, 1999, Allen Lee Davis convicted of murder was executed in the Florida electric chair "Old Sparky". Davis' face was bloodied and photographs taken, which were later posted on the internet. Lethal injection is now, as of 2006, the primary method of execution in the state of Florida.
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Too many to count, it varies too...\nHere are what other people had said...\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AoFzucNs1hO7T4QEuHujyH3sy6IX?qid=1006040205139
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Normally it's 1)family members of the condemed, 2)family of the victim, 3)a couple of representitaves of the media, 4)the prosecutor, and lawyer of the condemed, 5)Other state officals involved in the case(this can sometimes include jurors).  \n\nNo one is just "picked" from the population to witness an execution, it's specfic people listed in the law of the state where the execution is being done(or federal law if a federal case).
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This is long, so bear with it...\n\nA few weeks ago, the US reached a bit of a milestone, with an execution in North Carolina 1,000 people have been executed in the US since the re-instatement of the death penalty.  Think about that number, 1,000 people.  It’s a lot, with more to come in the near future.   It is one of the most divisive issues in the US today.  This is not an issue where there is any middle ground, it’s either you are for it or against it. \n\nIn the state of Texas, we execute more people than any other state of the union but even in Texas, the death penalty is hotly debated.  Not all states in the US have the death penalty but those that do have the same issues with it as here in Texas.\n\nLet’s start with a few of them… Firstly, the original reason for the death penalty was it was suppose to be a deterrent for crime.  It’s still touted as such in the states that do have the death penalty.  But, if you look at the statistics in the states that do have it you will see that it is not a deterrent at all.  Crime rates have not drastically dropped since its implementation.  If it were the state of Texas would be the state in the union that has the lowest violent crime rate, it doesn’t.  The only deterrent effect it has is that the person that is put to death will never again break the law.  That doesn’t drop the crime rate or make us any safer.  The realism is most criminals think they will never get caught, that they are too smart.  When criminals are doing whatever they are doing that is going to send them to death row they are not even considering the death penalty while they are performing the crime.  So that throws out the argument of being a deterrent and lowering crime rates.   \n\nSecondly, it was also suppose to lower costs of prisons.  If you execute the criminals they aren’t going to cost as much to feed, house or be taken care of.  Like the crime rate argument, this one is false as well.  In all actuality it takes more money to execute someone then to house them for life.  That has to do with the legal system and the appeals process.  Most of those on death row have court appointed lawyers because they can’t afford to hire one.  So the tax payers of the state end up footing the bill for not only the prosecution and housing the prisoner they end up paying for his legal defense as well.  In Texas, it costs almost three times more to execute someone then it does to house them in the highest security level for life (stats come from www.deathpenaltyinfo.org).  So how is that fulfilling the promise of lower costs?\n\nThirdly, it is considered retribution.  Unlike life imprisonment, where someone can lead a fairly normal life and have some luxuries, the death penalty does not allow that.  For some that are pro-death penalty that is acceptable because it is a true punishment for a crime, not a chance to rehabilitate the criminal.  With varying degrees people do agree with this, citing the ‘eye for an eye’ quote as back up for it.  But others feel that the states don’t have to right to impose retribution on an individual, that as ‘man’ we don’t have that right to take another life.  A lot of the belief systems that argue both for and against this have to do with religious principles.  But should states have that ability and be able to enforce death when they bluntly always say the state is not there to give retribution?  Isn’t death the utmost in retribution rather than punishment?\n\nFourthly, there is recidivism.  That is that some criminals repeat, repeat and repeat crimes no matter how many time they are sent to jail.  This is true.  There is a certain class of criminals that do repeat their crimes over and over, each time getting worse.  There seems to be nothing that can be done with these people that will work to rehabilitate and reform them.  Repeat offenders do seem to dominate the criminal justice system and are a big chunk of those that are incarcerated.  From the peop
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my state, Missouri, uses lethal injection.\n\ni can't help but think that its too good a way for some of the prisoners to die.\n\na few years back we had 3-4 black men out for a little 'fun' on a weekend evening.  they found 2 gals and a guy out walking.  they beat the hell out of the guy---i don't know if he survived the beating or not.  they raped AND beat the girls and then threw them OFF A FRIGGIN BRIDGE INTO THE MISSISSIPPI!\n\nman, that ain't right. so they're caught, becase they were BRAGGIN about it!  they are tried and convicted and spend the next 15 or so years on death row appealing their sentence.   \n\nthen when all appeals are exhausted and our governor won't issue the bastards a pardon, they are led into a little room, an iv is set up, a button is pushed and a series of three drugs are infused into the prisoner.  the first puts the bastard to sleep, the next paralyzes his breathing and the third stops his heart.   to me, this is just TOO easy a way to go after what they did to the 3 white people almost 20 years go.\n\nand of course, there were the usual gang of idiots outside the prison protesting the "unfair" and "inhumane" treatment of the prisoners.   puhleeze!\n\ni'd say lethal injection--it gets the job done and is cheap.  probably not as cheap as a bullet or a few jolts of electricity, but it works,
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Usually like 20 or so years. They can have up to three appeals, the first of which is free. Each of these is like a brand new trial. It takes so long because murder is not something to be taken lightly. The state is taking another human beings life (murder) and they want to make sure that they are executing the right person and that no more exonerating evidence shows up which has happened many times in the past.
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amnesty international\ndeath penalty info  by state, which have death penalty, how many are executed and what crimes, innocence rate and so on at  death penalty info.org\nalso court tv has a site\nI have linked them below