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Overview

Historically, executions have been used by those in power to maintain order
- Motivations behind executions has evolved over time under different contexts (ie. conquest, religion, etc.)
Since the beginning, the US has utilized capital punishment to help “protect” and “filter” society from those who would disrupt the "peace"
- The question then becomes, how effective has it been at doing that?

Capital Punishment/the Death Penalty is an outdated legal sentence that provides more issues than solutions to the problems it was originally implemented to address. Some of these issues include racial/ethnic disparities in who gets executed, efficacy in making communities safer, cost, and how it contrasts from the justice systems transition from punitive to restorative practices. As a result of such problems, the nation has been transitioning away from capital punishment . Our goal is to investigate and add understanding to capital punishment's decline.