Death penalty

__NOTOC__
==Backgound ==
* Death penalty and capital punishment at Wikipedia.
== ==
* Planks from Mark Rauterkus on the death penalty.
== Percentage alarms.==
Sadly, it seems as if the percentage of those on death row don't match the make-up of the general population. Same too with those that fill the prisons. Could there be systematic racism?
== ==
* Racism
* Death Tax
===Media===
* Lethal Injection Is On Hold in 2 States - washingtonpost.com -- Florida Governor Suspends Executions; Judge Orders California to Alter Methods, December 16, 2006
** Executions by lethal injection were suspended in Florida and ordered revamped in California on Friday, as the chemical method once billed as a more humane way of killing the condemned came under mounting scrutiny over the pain it may cause. Gov. Jeb Bush (R) ordered the suspension in Florida after a botched execution in which it took 34 minutes and a second injection to kill convicted murderer Angel Nieves Diaz. A state medical examiner said that needles used to carry the poison had passed through the prisoner's veins and delivered the three-chemical mix into the tissues of his arm.