Question: In what year did the reauthorization of capital punishment occur?
Answer: 1976

Question: How many people have been executed in the United States since 1976?
Answer: 1,411

Question: Which state has the largest number of people awaiting execution?
Answer: California

Question: In November 2008, who was on death penalty without a murder conviction?
Answer: Demarcus Sears

Question: Who did Demarcus Sears kidnap?
Answer: Gloria Ann Wilbur

Question: In what state was Gloria Ann Wilbur murdered?
Answer: Kentucky

Question: In what year was Demarcus Sears convicted of kidnapping?
Answer: 1986

Question: A jury in what state sentenced Demarcus Sears to death?
Answer: Georgia

Question: When a prisoner is given a death sentence in a state, what is the first step of collateral review?
Answer: state collateral review

Question: About what percentage of capital convictions are overturned due to state collateral review?
Answer: 6

Question: In 2010, how many death sentences were overturned due to reversals from courts or appeals?
Answer: 53

Question: What is an example of an issue that is raised in collateral review?
Answer: ineffective assistance of counsel

Question: In what case did the Supreme Court allow Section 1983 to be used to challenge a method of execution?
Answer: Hill v. McDonough

Question: In what year was Hill v. McDonough decided?
Answer: 2006

Question: What amendment of the Constitution does cruel and unusual punishment violate?
Answer: Eighth

Question: What case notably upheld the use of a method of lethal injection?
Answer: Baze v. Rees

Question: Along with Section 1983, through what means can a convict on death row challenge his execution?
Answer: habeas corpus

Question: How many people were killed in the largest mass execution in US history?
Answer: 38

Question: On what date did the largest mass execution in American history take place?
Answer: December 26, 1862

Question: In what state did the largest American mass execution occur?
Answer: Minnesota

Question: What was the ethnicity of the people executed in the second-largest mass execution in US history?
Answer: African-American

Question: In what year did the Admiralty Court hang 26 pirates in Newport, Rhode Island?
Answer: 1723

Question: What act restricted the scope of federal habeas corpus?
Answer: the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996

Question: How may state prisoners seek to have a death sentence overturned in federal court?
Answer: Federal habeas corpus

Question: In what courts can federal habeas corpus suits be brought?
Answer: federal

Question: If prisoners use federal habeas corpus to present evidence that they're innocent, what must the evidence be?
Answer: truly compelling

Question: Along with New Jersey, what state commuted all life sentences when bills to repeal the death penalty were passed?
Answer: Illinois

Question: The governor of what state commuted four death sentences in January 2015?
Answer: Maryland

Question: Who was governor of Maryland in January 2015?
Answer: Martin O'Malley

Question: In what state's supreme court was State v. Santiago decided?
Answer: Connecticut

Question: How many people had their sentences commuted by State v. Santiago?
Answer: 11

Question: In what court was Bigby v. Dretke decided?
Answer: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Question: What court heard the case Penry v. Lynaugh?
Answer: United States Supreme Court

Question: What amendment to the Constitution did Penry v. Lynaugh address?
Answer: Eighth

Question: What sentencing factors did Bigby v. Dretke consider?
Answer: mitigating

Question: In what year was Tony Chebatoris killed?
Answer: 1938

Question: When was Michigan's fourth Constitution ratified?
Answer: 1963

Question: In what city was Tony Chebatoris executed?
Answer: Milan

Question: In what year was there a failed Michigan constitutional amendment to allow the death penalty?
Answer: 2004

Question: What article of the fourth Michigan Constitution forbids laws allowing capital punishment?
Answer: 4

Question: Under what federal statute are offenses punished by lethal injection?
Answer: Drug Kingpin Act of 1988

Question: According to what law are federal prisoners executed according to the procedures in place in the state in which they were convicted?
Answer: Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994

Question: In what month and year was Juan Garza executed?
Answer: June 2001

Question: Who was executed by the federal government on March 18, 2003?
Answer: Louis Jones, Jr.

Question: In what state is the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute?
Answer: Indiana

Question: In what year did the American Law Institute create a death penalty framework for the Model Penal Code?
Answer: 1962

Question: In what year did the American Law Institute change their mind about their contribution on the death penalty to the Model Penal Code?
Answer: 2009

Question: What goal did the ALI's study say could not be reconciled with the goal of individualized execution decisions?
Answer: systemic fairness for minorities

Question: In what year was Coker v. Georgia decided?
Answer: 1977

Question: For what offense did Coker v. Georgia forbid the death penalty?
Answer: rape of an adult woman

Question: Along with Georgia, what American jurisdiction allowed people to be executed for the rape of an adult prior to Coker?
Answer: U.S. Federal government

Question: What ruling forbid the government from executing child rapists?
Answer: Kennedy v. Louisiana

Question: Prior to Kennedy v. Louisiana, how many states criminalized child rape?
Answer: three

Question: In what year was Nebraska's death penalty statute ruled unconstitutional by a state court?
Answer: 2008

Question: What state's court ruled capital punishment unconstitutional in 1984?
Answer: Massachusetts

Question: In what case did the Kansas Supreme Court rule that the death penalty is unconstitutional in Kansas?
Answer: State v. Kleypas

Question: What method of execution did the Nebraska Supreme Court rule unconstitutional?
Answer: electrocution

Question: After electrocution was outlawed, how were Nebraska death row inmates executed?
Answer: lethal injection

Question: What death penalty drug ceased to be manufactured in 2011?
Answer: sodium thiopental

Question: Up until 2011, who manufactured sodium thiopental?
Answer: Hospira

Question: What is the nationality of the company that makes pentobarbital?
Answer: Danish

Question: Along with anti-death penalty advocacy, why has there been a shortage in drugs for lethal injections in the United States?
Answer: low production volume

Question: The EU outlawed the export of products that could be used in what activity?
Answer: execution

Question: In what year did the most polled American support capital punishment?
Answer: 1994

Question: What percentage of polled Americans opposed the death penalty in 1966?
Answer: 47

Question: In a 1977 poll, what percentage of respondents preferred life imprisonment to the death penalty?
Answer: 29

Question: In a 2006 poll, what percentage of polled Americans preferred the death penalty to life without parole?
Answer: 47

Question: What is a notable capital crime in Louisiana?
Answer: aggravated rape

Question: In what state is extortionate kidnapping a capital offense?
Answer: Oklahoma

Question: Along with Alabama, where is hijacking an aircraft a death penalty offense?
Answer: Mississippi

Question: In what state is armed robbery a capital crime?
Answer: Georgia

Question: In what states is perjury leading to death a capital offense?
Answer: California, Colorado, Idaho and Nebraska

Question: Along with Marshall, who believed that the Eighth Amendment forbade the death penalty?
Answer: William J. Brennan, Jr.

Question: Along with Stewart, what Supreme Court justice was concerned about racial disparity in death penalty enforcement?
Answer: William O. Douglas