gifts and journeys: catholic social teaching and the death penalty

Gifts and Journeys:

Catholic Social Teaching and the

Death Penalty

AgendaVideoQuizAlice’s JourneyDaphne’s JourneyGiftsQuestions … Discussion

What do you knowabout

the Death Penalty?

Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?

Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?

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5th Grade Topic 1 Question How many foreign nationals are currently on death row in the United States? None 68

141 9,870

5th Grade Topic 1 Answer

141Return

5th Grade Topic 2 Question In what year did the Supreme Court rule that executing juveniles was unconstitutional. 

1953 19852005 There has never been

such a ruling.

5th Grade Topic 2 Answer

March 2005

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4th Grade Topic 3 QuestionInternational Death Penalty Abolition Day takes place on which day every year? April 1 March 1

December 7 December 10

4th Grade Topic 3 Answer

March 1(This day marks the occasion in 1847 when the U.S. state of Michigan became the first English-speaking territory in the

world to abolish capital punishment. )Return

4th Grade Topic 4 QuestionIn what year did the United States Supreme Court rule that executing persons with mental retardation was unconstitutional.1929 19732002 There has never been

such a ruling.

4th Grade Topic 4 Answer

June 20, 2002

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3rd Grade Topic 5 QuestionHow many people are currently on death row in the United States?

1,780 3,146

101,054 43,003

3rd Grade Topic 5 Answer

3,146 (142 in Ohio)

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3rd Grade Topic 6 QuestionEach death penalty case in Texas costs taxpayers about $1.75 million.

TRUE or FALSE

3rd Grade Topic 6 Answer

FALSE(The reported figure is 2.3 million. That is about three times the cost of imprisoning

someone in a single cell at the highest security level for 40 years.) Return

2nd Grade Topic 7 QuestionWhich state still uses the electric chair?

Texas Virginia

Connecticut Nebraska

2nd Grade Topic 7 Answer

Virginia(used 1/16/13)

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2nd Grade Topic 8 QuestionWhat percentage of death row inmates cannot afford to pay for their own attorney?

55%75%

95%100%

2nd Grade Topic 8 Answer

95%Return

1st Grade Topic 9 QuestionIn a 1990 report, the non-partisan U.S. General Accounting Office found "pattern of evidence indicating racial disparities in the charging, sentencing, and imposition of the death penalty" in the U.S.

TRUE or FALSE

1st Grade Topic 9 Answer

TRUEReturn

1st Grade Topic 10 QuestionSince 1973, more than 140 people have been released from death rows throughout the country due to evidence of their wrongful convictions.

TRUE or FALSE

1st Grade Topic 10 Answer

TRUE(6 are from Ohio)

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Million Dollar QuestionGrade Level Topic 11

Ohio’s Death Row

1,000,000 QuestionWhere is Ohio’s Death Row located?

* S. Ohio Correctional Facility~Lucasville* Mansfield Correctional Facility* Chillicothe Correctional Institution* Ohio Reformatory for Women~Marysville

1,000,000 Answer Chillicothe Correctional Institution

(for men)

Ohio Reformatory for Women~Marysville (1 woman)

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Thanks for Playing!

Sr. Alice’s Journey

Daphne’s Journey

The Gifts

“All of us are worth more than our worst act.”Sr. Helen Prejean

Japanese proverbHate the sin itself and not the man himself who commit it.

Questions&

Discussion“Most people want the death penalty simply because of the desire for revenge.  Revenge is never ever the answer.  The answer is love and compassion for all of humanity.”~~Bill Pelke 

Other ResourcesDeath Penalty Information Centerhttp://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/home

Intercommunity Justice & Peace Center (IJPC)http://www.ijpc-cincinnati.org/death-penalty

Ohioans to stop executions (OTSE)http://www.otse.org/

Jesuits on – Death Penalty (22 min. video)Father Gregory J. O’Meara, S.J.Marquette University

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS0Oqvm15i0

Coming soonDaphne is developing a death penalty resource guide to help you find other resources available in Xavier University’s library (and beyond)…

This was presented at the Loyola Lunch Seminar on January 31, 2013by

Sr. Alice Gerdeman, Intercommunity Peace & Justice Center&

Daphne Miller, Cataloging Librarian, Xavier University