Michigan State University has assembled materials to help students explore, debate, and discuss this controversial important topic involving federal and state laws and personal values. The first URL includes the history of the death penalty, stages in a capital case, interactive US maps and state data and policies, arguments for and against the death penalty, and four actual courtroom cases, along with lesson plans for teachers. The second URL is the link to just the student material . The Sentencing Project Website is designed to provide resources and information for the news media and a public concerned with criminal justice and sentencing issues. Factsheets, policy reports, and publications are presented on drug policy and sentencing, juvenile crime, inmate population in America, racial and class disparity in incarceration and sentencing, three strikes laws, alternative sentencing, criminalization of the mentally ill, and other criminal justice topics.
Data is by sex, age and race in Adobe Acrobat format.
In PDF format. Included are charts and tables on violence against both women and men by type of violence, race, and age.