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.
Many allied nations either abolished or limited the death penalty, and in the U.S., the number of executions dropped dramatically. Whereas there were 1,289 executions in the 1940s, there were 715 in the 1950s, and the number fell even further, to only 191, from 1960 to 1976.lthough some states abolished the death penalty in the mid-Nineteenth Century, it was actually the first half of the Twentieth Century that marked the beginning of the Progressive Period of reform in the United States.