Alpha Otis Stephens, William Vandiver, Horace F. Dunkins, Jesse Joseph Tafero, and Wilbert L. Evans. The electrocutions went on average ten minutes, and sent an average of three currents through the men (Mitchell 141). In some cases, inmates have to be given a different technique to fit their needs. Stephen Peter Morin, Randy Woolls, and Elliot Johnson were drug addicts. The nurses setting them up had to find a different way to put in the catheter due to their magles veins (142). These malfunctions take a while to fix so the executions are sometimes an hour late (142). The last time there was little crime was around 1958 to 1963, in that time, support for the death penalty dropped to forty-two percent. In 1976, that support went through the roof, along with the crime rate. In 1990, New York had a record of two thousand two hundred murders. Four out of five people in America were for capital punishment. Since then, murder rates in the Big …show more content…
In past years, the amount of people put on death row has plummeted. Two hundred seventy seven inmates were put on death row in 1999 and one hundred twelve were sent to death in 2009. Twenty seven years prior to 2000, three inmates on average were put to death a year. The average went up to five a year from 2000 to 2007. Twenty people were put to death in Illinois from 1977 to present. Illinois has recently abolished the death penalty joining some of the other states (Cary). Even though states are abolishing the death penalty, the government may have other ideas. They have the final say. There is a difference between death penalty and terrorism, there is also a difference in state and nonstate. The idea of power in the ranks of the system keep making people second guess themselves. This choice lets the Americans feel like they have defeated the unjustified harshness of our forefathers