Together, that adds up to 197 votes. If you add in three swing states that havenât voted Republican for president since 1988 (Maine, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin) that gets a Democratic nominee up to 247, or just 23 swing-state electoral votes short of the 270 needed to win the presidency.
Why the Death Penalty should be abolished. The risk of executing innocent people exists in any justice system There have been and always will be cases of executions of innocent people.No matter how developed a justice system is, it will always remain susceptible to human failure. Unlike prison sentences, the death penalty is irreversible and irreparable.urthermore, the death penalty undermines human dignity which is inherent to every human being. The death penalty does not deter crime effectively The death penalty lacks the deterrent effect which is commonly referred to by its advocates.
The first known attempted reforms of the death penalty in the United States occurred when Thomas Jefferson introduced a bill to revise Virginia's capital punishment laws, recommending that the death penalty be used only in the case of murder and treason offenses.Jefferson's bill was defeated by one vote.rom 1907 to 1917, six states completely outlawed the death penalty, and three limited it to the rarely committed crimes of treason and first-degree murder of a law enforcement official.