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Louis McHenry Howe (January 14, 1871 – April 18, 1936) [1] was an American reporter for the New York Herald best known for acting as an early political advisor (1909-1936) to future 32nd President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945, served 1933-1945). Born to a wealthy family in Indianapolis, Indiana, Howe was a small, sickly, and asthmatic child.
A 2016 poll conducted by Pew Research, found that support nationwide for the death penalty in the U.S. had fallen below 50% for the first time since the beginning of the post-Gregg era. [96] The death penalty became an issue during the 1988 presidential election.
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.
Texas has executed the most inmates of any other state in the nation, and it's not even close. The Lone Star state has put 591 inmates to death since 1982, most recently Garcia Glen White on Oct. 1.
Death penalty opponents regard the death penalty as inhumane [207] and criticize it for its irreversibility. [208] They argue also that capital punishment lacks deterrent effect, [209] [210] [211] or has a brutalization effect, [212] [213] discriminates against minorities and the poor, and that it encourages a "culture of violence". [214]
Of all present European countries, San Marino, Portugal and the Netherlands were the first to abolish capital punishment; Romania banned it even earlier in 1864, but it was much later reintroduced from 1936 to 1990 during the dictatorial and communist eras; in Italy the nationwide ban on the death penalty dates from 1889 (capital punishment had ...
Anti-death penalty groups specifically argue that the death penalty is unfairly applied to African Americans. African Americans have constituted 34.5 percent of those persons executed since the death penalty's reinstatement in 1976 and 41 percent of death row inmates as of April 2018, [ 84 ] despite representing only 13 percent of the general ...
List of death row inmates in the United States; List of juveniles executed in the United States since 1976; List of most recent executions by jurisdiction; List of people executed in Texas, 2020–present; List of people scheduled to be executed in the United States; List of women executed in the United States since 1976