Question: Aside from Stewart, what justice believed that the death penalty could be constitutional?
Answer: Byron White

Question: Between 1973 and 2015, how amny prisoners were acquitted or received pardons or commutations of their death sentences due to possible innocence?
Answer: 156

Question: What percentage of murderers in the United States are given a death sentence?
Answer: 2.5

Question: How many murderers in Nevada were given a capital sentence?
Answer: 6

Question: What state notably executes 40% of those given the death penalty?
Answer: Texas

Question: How much higher is the rate of execution in Texas versus the national average?
Answer: four times

Question: What percentage of murderers in California are given the death penalty and subsequently executed?
Answer: 1

Question: Under the Drug Kingpin Act of 1988 and Federal Death Penalty Act of 1994, about how many crimes were punishable by death?
Answer: fifty

Question: What body passed the Drug Kingpin Act of 1988?
Answer: Congress

Question: What is another term for the act of spying for another country?
Answer: espionage

Question: Along with treason and espionage, what non-death offense is still a federal capital crime?
Answer: high-level drug trafficking

Question: Who was executed on January 17, 1977?
Answer: Gary Gilmore

Question: By what method was Gary Gilmore executed?
Answer: firing squad

Question: Aside from Gary Gilmore, how many people were executed in the United States between January 17, 1977 and 1984?
Answer: ten

Question: What tactic did inmates on death row use to delay their executions?
Answer: filing repeated writs of habeas corpus

Question: In what month and year was Troy Davis executed?
Answer: September 2011

Question: Who was the Death Penalty Information Center director?
Answer: Richard Dieter

Question: What organization did Brian Evans work for?
Answer: Amnesty International

Question: How many execution methods are currently used in the United States?
Answer: five

Question: What was the most common historical method of execution in the United States?
Answer: hanging

Question: In what state did the last burning at the stake take place in the US?
Answer: South Carolina

Question: Who was the last person hanged in chains in the Untied States?
Answer: John Marshall

Question: When was execution by beheading ended in Utah?
Answer: 1888

Question: What percentage of American death row prisoners are African American?
Answer: 41

Question: What percentage of people executed in the United States since 1976 have been African American?
Answer: 34

Question: What percentage of American prison inmates are African American?
Answer: 47

Question: What percentage of homicides were committed by Asians between 1980 and 2008?
Answer: 2.2%

Question: What percentage of the American population is Hispanic?
Answer: 17.4%

Question: In the United States, how many important steps are usually present in the administration of capital punishment?
Answer: four

Question: Along with the President, what officeholder can issue pardons?
Answer: Governor

Question: How many death sentences were issued in the period 1995-1996?
Answer: 309

Question: How many capital sentences were given in 1973?
Answer: 44

Question: In what year were there 73 death penalty convictions?
Answer: 2014

Question: On what date was Fred Adams hanged?
Answer: April 2, 1937

Question: Where was Bethea hanged?
Answer: Owensboro

Question: What was Roscoe Jackson's nickname?
Answer: Red

Question: In what state did the hanging of Adams take place?
Answer: Missouri

Question: How many people witnessed Timothy McVeigh's execution?
Answer: 300

Question: What institution does James Liebman work for?
Answer: Columbia Law School

Question: What does James Liebman teach?
Answer: law

Question: According to Liebman, about what percentage of death penalty habeas corpus petitions were successful between 1978 and 1995?
Answer: 40

Question: According to Tabak, what percentage of habeas corpus petitions were granted to death row inmates between 1976 and 1991?
Answer: 47

Question: In what year did Liebman announce his findings?
Answer: 1996

Question: Who was executed on March 30, 1960?
Answer: James W. Rodgers

Question: What method of execution was used on James W. Rodgers?
Answer: firing squad

Question: In what state was Rodgers executed?
Answer: Utah

Question: On what date was George York executed?
Answer: June 22, 1965

Question: Which state executed James French?
Answer: Oklahoma

Question: About how many American juveniles have been executed since 1642?
Answer: 364

Question: In what year was Thomas Graunger executed?
Answer: 1642

Question: Since 1976, how many Americans have been executed for crimes committed as juveniles?
Answer: Twenty-two

Question: How old was George Stinney when he was executed?
Answer: 14

Question: What method was used to execute Leonard Shockley?
Answer: gas chamber

Question: What state employed Robert Patton in May 2014?
Answer: Oklahoma

Question: As of May 2014, what was Robert Patton's job title?
Answer: Director of Corrections

Question: What race was Clayton Lockett?
Answer: African-American

Question: What gas did Oklahoma decide to use for executions in 2015?
Answer: nitrogen

Question: What was Clayton Lockett's cause of death?
Answer: heart attack

Question: Along with gender, geography and race, what bias do some opponents of the death penalty see in its administration?
Answer: socio-economic

Question: According to opponents of the death penalty, what does the death penalty cheapen?
Answer: human life

Question: According to death penalty opponents, on whose moral level does execution place the government?
Answer: criminals involved in murder

Question: What do death penalty opponents argue that capital punishment isn't effective at doing?
Answer: deterring crime

Question: Who do death penalty opponents believe may sometimes be executed?
Answer: the innocent

Question: According to Thompson v. Oklahoma, what was the youngest age at which a person might be executed?
Answer: Sixteen

Question: In what year was Thompson v. Oklahoma decided?
Answer: 1988

Question: In what month and year was Roper v. Simmons decided?
Answer: March 2005

Question: In Roper v. Simmons, how many Supreme Court justices believed juvenile execution to be unconstitutional?
Answer: 5

Question: Based on Roper v. Simmons, what is now the minimum age to be executed in the United States?
Answer: 18

Question: In what year did Missouri pass a law stating that executions should be inside of or near a jail?
Answer: 1919

Question: What procedure did Missouri use to execute prisoners in 1919?
Answer: hanging

Question: In the Missouri of 1919, who handed out passes to witness executions?
Answer: the local sheriff

Question: In approximately what year did a movement in favor of private executions begin in the US?
Answer: 1890

Question: Who commuted all state capital sentences in 1986?
Answer: Toney Anaya

Question: Of what state was Toney Anaya governor?
Answer: New Mexico

Question: Who was Governor of Ohio in 1991?
Answer: Dick Celeste

Question: How many women were on Ohio's death row in 1991?
Answer: four

Question: In what year did Bob Graham become Governor of Florida?
Answer: 1979

Question: Along with South Dakota, what state rejected a death penalty abolition bill in 2010?
Answer: Kansas

Question: Who did Idaho execute in 2011?
Answer: Paul Ezra Rhoades

Question: Who was executed on October 30, 2012?
Answer: Donald Moeller

Question: Since 1976, how many prisoners has Nevada executed?
Answer: 12

Question: Since 1976, in what year was a prisoner executed in Wyoming?
Answer: 1992

Question: How many drugs are used to administer lethal injection?
Answer: three

Question: What lethal injection drug is manufactured by Hospira?
Answer: sodium thiopental

Question: When did Hospira cease to manufacture its lethal injection drug for the United States?
Answer: 2011