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What are lethal injection drugs?
Lack of this has led to delays in the executions of some inmates on death row
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What are aggravating circumstances?
A judge in AL (or any state which allows judicial override) can override a jury's vote against the death penalty and implement the death penalty; most commonly on the grounds of _____________________.
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What is parole?
This is the proper term for supervision in the community that is served AFTER having served time in a prison
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What is a spree murder?
for example: DC Sniper
This type of homicide involves at least three victims, at least three locations and includes a cooling off period
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What is that drug manufacturers do not want their name/brand associated with the death penalty?
This is the reason largely attributed to the shortage of available drugs for lethal injection
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What is approximately 16 years?
As of 2012, this is the average length of time between sentencing and execution of persons sentenced to death
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What is Ring v. Arizona (2002)?
This is the case which challenged the ability for judges to override a jury's decision regarding giving an offender the death penalty
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What is violation of 8th amendment rights?
If an inmate sues a state for lack of options available to him in the commissary as cruel and unusual punishment, on what grounds is this inmate filing suit?
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What is an abusive childhood?
A majority of serial murderers have this element of their background in common
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What is 33?
Gacy is alleged to have killed approximately this many victims
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What are the determination of guilt or innocence (guilt phase) and the sentencing phase?
In a death penalty trial these are the two phases of the trial process
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What is 2011?
In what year did IL abolish the death penalty?
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What is probation?
An offender may be sentenced to this in the community in lieu of (as an alternative to) serving prison time.
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What is a clown?
Gacy was associated with what childhood character?
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What is strangulation with the 'rope trick'?
This is the method by which Gacy is said to have killed his victims
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What is a unanimous vote from the jury?
Most states require ________________ in order to impose a sentence of the death penalty
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What is '[to] commute'?
The process of changing a sentence from the death penalty to life imprisonment is known as this
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What is retribution?
This is the term used to describe society's need to heal by sentencing an offender to a harsh prison sentence
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What is mass murder?
The Aurora, Colorado and Lafayette, LA theater shootings are examples of this type of murder
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What is 12?
This is how many of the murders Gacy was sentenced to death for
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What is retribution or 'eye for an 'eye'?
The death penalty aligns with this philosophy of punishment
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What is 31?
This is the number of states that still have the death penalty
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What is discretion?
Mandatory sentencing restricts the __________________ of judges
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What is a serial murderer?
John Gacy, Jefferey Dahmer and Derrick Todd Lee are examples of this type of murderer
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What is a serial murderer/serial killer?
This is the only kind of repeat murderer that has a cooling off period between victims
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What is 'bifurcated'?
This is the term used to refer to the two-part trial process of a death penalty trial
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