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Death Penalty. If you hate to think government have a punishment of death and want to know about it and what you can do to help read here! No one should take life away. __ Facts and Infomation __ 16 states have banned capital punishment and declared it unconstitutional. Since 1976 12,00 people have been put to death by lethal injection. About 13,000 people have been legally executed since colonial times. A total of 273 people have been proven not guilty after DNA evidence after being murdered. In June,28 2007 African Americans made 50% of the death row. 34 states still have the death penalty. Types of crimes inculde multiple and intentional murder, which is a first degree murder. Other crimes are forms of rape to a child.

__ How it can be abolished and what you can do and the government is doing to help. __

Supreme Court has declared it unconstitutional. In 1972 the supreme court had a 5 to 4 vote, the court agreed it was cruel and unusual. Much is being done about the death penalty for the better of America. You can help by talking to your friends and families or writing a letter to a governor or a higher up. Most executions occur in Ohio and Texas so thoose are the states you should focus on if you want to help. Using less of the punishment and more of jail time is a way to solve this problem.

 This is what they use to keep victims still when getting lethal injection today.