Why does America retain the death penalty?

What America does in its own prisons is its own business, most of the time. That was not ... It said it did not, and Texas became the first state to resume executions. But even ... Among developed industrialised nations, only the US, Japan and South Korea persist in retaining capital punishment. read more

National opinion on the death penalty is meaningless. Even if most Americans were to oppose the death penalty, that doesn't necessarily mean that most Texans oppose the death penalty. Second, there are states which retain the death penalty but haven't executed anyone. Both NJ and NY have the death penalty, but no executions have occurred in decades. read more

vengeance Jerry Hobbs was one of those slam-dunk death penalty cases, a guy with a criminal record guilty of a brutal crime that even hardcore opponents of capital punishment would have a difficult time sparing. read more