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Furtick is a New York Times best selling author. [2] He has also participated in various philanthropic campaigns, donating clothes and furniture to families in need. [4]In 2013, Furtick has declined to answer questions regarding his salary, his tax-free housing allowance, and how much he makes from books and speaking fees, and how the church is governed. [17]
Since 1991, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund has produced quarterly reports containing statistics related to capital punishment in the United States. The reports include a breakdown of the death row population by race, the race of those executed, as well as the race of the victims in each case. [9]
The following is a list of white defendants executed for killing a black victim.Executions of white defendants for killing black victims are rare. Since the reinstatement of capital punishment in the United States in 1976, just 21 white people have been executed for killing a black person (less than 1.36 percent of all executions), whereas the number of black people executed for killing a ...
Capital punishment is retained in law by 55 UN member states or observer states, with 140 having abolished it in law or in practice.The most recent legal executions performed by nations and other entities with criminal law jurisdiction over the people present within its boundaries are listed below.
Race Age Sex Date of execution Method County or Independent City Victim(s) Governor 1 George C. Mercer: White 44 M January 6, 1989 [a] Lethal injection: Cass [b] Karen Keeton John Ashcroft: 2 Gerald Smith White 32 M January 18, 1990 [c] St. Louis City: Karen Roberts [d] 3 Winford L. Stokes Jr. Black 39 M May 11, 1990 St. Louis: Pamela Benda 4 ...
Race Age Sex Date of execution Method Victim(s) President 1 Timothy James McVeigh: White 33 M June 11, 2001 Lethal injection: 8 federal law enforcement officers [a] George W. Bush: 2 Juan Raul Garza: Hispanic 44 M June 19, 2001 Thomas Albert Rumbo, Gilberto Matos, and Erasmo De La Fuente [b] 3 Louis Jones Jr. Black 53 M March 18, 2003
The federal death penalty data released by the United States Department of Justice between 1995 and 2000 shows that 682 defendants were sentenced to death. [139] Out of those 682 defendants, the defendant was Black in 48% of the cases, Hispanic in 29% of the cases, and White in 20% of the cases.
Three states abolished the death penalty for murder during the 19th century: Michigan (which has never executed a prisoner and is the first government in the English-speaking world to abolish capital punishment) [38] in 1847, Wisconsin in 1853, and Maine in 1887.