The Death Penalty MCQ

All states utilize the bifurcated hearing in death penalty cases.

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Correct Answer: False

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The mentally ill can appeal death penalty sentences.

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Correct Answer: True

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The death penalty is disproportionately handed down to minorities.

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Correct Answer: False

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The death penalty violates the Eighth amendment to the Constitution.

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Correct Answer: False

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Offenders have the right to an appeal in death penalty cases.

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Correct Answer: True

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Racial disparity exists in death penalty cases.

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Correct Answer: False

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All states utilize the bifurcated hearing in death penalty cases.

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Correct Answer: False

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The U.S. military uses the death penalty as a form of punishment.

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Correct Answer: False

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Democrats are more likely to support life in prison rather than republicans.

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Correct Answer: True

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The mentally disabled cannot be sentenced to death.

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Correct Answer: True

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There is no reliable form of testimony in a trial.

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Correct Answer: False

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Men are sentenced to death more than women in the United States.

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Correct Answer: True

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Whites are least likely to be put to death than any other race.

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Correct Answer: True

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It costs more to sentence an offender to life without the possibility of parole than to put the offender to death.

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Correct Answer: False

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The death penalty is practiced in select states within the United States.

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Correct Answer: True

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Lethal Injection paralyzes the ___________ and stop the person’s breathing

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Correct Answer: Muscular system

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Gas Chanber uses _______ gas to execute someone placed in an airtight chamber and strapped to a chair

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Correct Answer: Cyanide

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Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) is the workhorse of neuro imaging used to assess the functioning of a person’s ____ while engaged in some task

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Correct Answer: Brain

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A method of execution by which the condemned was strapped and _______ is called Firing Squad

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Correct Answer: Shot

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Electrocution is that the person undergoing execution is strapped to the chair, and electrodes are attached to the person’s body.

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Correct Answer: True

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Major (partisan) source of information on the___________ in the United States

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Correct Answer: Death penalty

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Brutalizing Effect is the assumption that rather than deterring homicides, they actually __________ following executions

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Correct Answer: Increase

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