The Death Penalty MCQ

The Death Penalty MCQ

 

1. _____ is defined as the physical location for federal death row.

Answer

Correct Answer: United States Penitentiary (USP) Terre Haute

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2. _____ is observes that prosecutors are overwhelmingly Caucasian and seek the death penalty disproportionately more often when the victim is also Caucasian.

Answer

Correct Answer: Prosecutorial Death Discretion Outcome

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3. Is federal Death Penalty Act of 1994 established constitutional procedures for imposition of the death penalty?

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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4. _____ is known as the states of mental illness that can develop over time as result of the death row phenomenon.

Answer

Correct Answer: Death Row Syndrome

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5. _____ is defined as the harmful effects of death row conditions that are experienced while waiting for one’s demise.

Answer

Correct Answer: Death Row Phenomenon

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6. _____ is persons who have been sentenced to be executed but are awaiting their execution.

Answer

Correct Answer: Death Row

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7. Is brutalization Hypothesis the contention that the use of harsh punishments sensitizes people to violence and teaches them to use it?

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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8. _____ is known as putting the offender to death.

Answer

Correct Answer: Capital Punishment

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9. _____ is defined as makes an independent recommendation to the attorney general regarding death penalty cases.

Answer

Correct Answer: Attorney General’s Review Committee on Capital Cases

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10. _____ is required inmate to provide clear and convincing evidence of a constitutional violation before granting a certificate of appeal.

Answer

Correct Answer: Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996

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11. Is anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 made the death penalty available as a possible punishment for certain drug-related offenses?

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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12. Which of the following organizations provides detailed information regarding the use of the death penalty?

Answer

Correct Answer: All of these

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13. Which of the following is the workhorse of neuroimaging used to assess the functioning of a person’s brain while engaged in some task?

Answer

Correct Answer: FMRI

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14. As of December 2012, how many inmates had been exonerated by the Innocence Project and DNA testing?

Answer

Correct Answer: 305

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15. Diyya refers to ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: Blood money

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16. According to a study conducted in California in 2011, how much money would be saved if all of California's death row inmates were commuted to life without parole?

Answer

Correct Answer: $170 million

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17. Which court case ruled that an inmate may be involuntarily medicated if the inmate poses a danger to him/herself or others?

Answer

Correct Answer: Washington v. Harper

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18. With regard to racial bias, the issue has moved from ______ to ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: Black defendants; black victims

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19. Which of the following methods of execution was viewed as more humane than hanging?

Answer

Correct Answer: All of these

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20. Which of the following methods of execution was seen as more humane than the firing squad?

Answer

Correct Answer: Lethal injection

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21. Ford v. Wainwright (1986) addressed which of the following issues?

Answer

Correct Answer: The use of the death penalty on the insane

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22. Since 1976, 11 people have been executed with the use of a firing squad.

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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23. Historically, hanging has been the most common method used in execution.

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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24. The year 1994 marked the year with the highest level of support for the death penalty.

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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25. Life without the possibility of parole is not provided as an alternative to a death sentence.

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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26. The death penalty is the most controversial issue in corrections today.

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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27. Cases involving a White victim are more likely to result in the application of the death penalty than cases involving a Black victim.

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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28. All of the following are accurate statements about the current death row population except this.

Answer

Correct Answer: Two thirds of those on death row have a high school diploma.

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29. The death penalty is cheaper than life without the possibility of parole.

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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30. In Furman v. Georgia, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: The administration of the death penalty was unconstitutional

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31. In ______, the U.S. Supreme Court held that statistical data that demonstrated racial disparities in the use of the death penalty were not sufficient evidence to prove discrimination in an individual case

Answer

Correct Answer: McKlesky v. Kemp

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32. Lethal injection is the most common method of execution today.

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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33. In Witherspoon v. Illinois, the U.S. Supreme Court held that a potential juror could serve on a capital jury even if she or he had doubts about the use of the death penalty.

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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34. Which region of the United States has the highest rates of execution?

Answer

Correct Answer: The South

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35. The brutalization hypothesis predicts findings that are the opposite of ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: General deterrence

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36. Death row syndrome refers to ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: The mental illnesses that the condemned might develop while held in solitary confinement on death row

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37. Which of the following is an accurate statement about the federal use of the death penalty?

Answer

Correct Answer: After Furman v. Georgia, the federal government waited 20 years before reforming its death penalty process.

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38. In which case did the U.S. Supreme Court abolish the use of the death penalty for those who were insane?

Answer

Correct Answer: Ford v. Wainwright

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39. A proponent of retribution would support the death penalty for murder because ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: She believes in proportionality between the punishment and the crime

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40. Prior to Roper v. Simmons, which juveniles were eligible to receive the death penalty?

Answer

Correct Answer: Any juveniles who were 16 or 17 at the time of the offense

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41. The death penalty is a constitutional punishment for the rape of an adult woman.

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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42. Exoneration means to clear from suspicion, accusation, or blame.

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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43. A preliminary hearing after a criminal complaint has been filed by the prosecutor, to determine whether there is enough evidence to require a trial is called ____________ .types of mistrial is known as:

Answer

Correct Answer: Evidentiary hearing

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44. Euthanasia is painlessly ending the life of a person or animal for the purpose of relieving suffering; mercy killing.

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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45. Prosecuting, trying, or punishing twice for the same instance of a criminal act when the first prosecution led to an acquittal, a conviction, or certain types of mistrial is known as:

Answer

Correct Answer: Double jeopardy

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46. During executions, who signals the delivery of the killing drugs?

Answer

Correct Answer: Wardens

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47. Between 1978 and 2011, the state of California spent _____ billion on the death penalty.

Answer

Correct Answer: 4

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48. The average time spent in prison before an innocent individual is release is almost 20 years.

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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49. Which of the following court cases held that putting developmentally disabled to death constituted a violation of their Eight Amendment rights?

Answer

Correct Answer: Atkins v. Virginia

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50. The majority of the women who have been executed have been African American.

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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51. Which of the following cases suspended the imposition of death sentences in the U.S. for several years?

Answer

Correct Answer: Furman v. Georgia

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52. Which of the following states still kept inmates on death row after they abolished the death penalty?

Answer

Correct Answer: All of the above

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53. When Maryland abolished the death penalty, the repeals were not retroactive.

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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54. All of the following states have abolished the death penalty except?

Answer

Correct Answer: Montana

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55. The majority of death row inmates are male.

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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56. In 2012, _____ inmates were removed from death row.

Answer

Correct Answer: 111

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57. The population of death row has increased.

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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58. California has executed ______ individuals.

Answer

Correct Answer: 13

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59. ______ percent of criminologists believe that capital punishment reduces homicide rates.

Answer

Correct Answer: 5

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60. According the authors, the majority of the public sees the death penalty as a cultural issue.

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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61. Capital punishment follows the Old Testament philosophy of an “eye for an eye.”

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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62. The death penalty is intended for the most violent crimes.

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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63. Which of the following states executed Troy Davis after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a stay of execution?

Answer

Correct Answer: Georgia

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