What Is False About the Nature of the Death Penalty

question 79

Multiple Choice

What is false about the nature of the death penalty?

• A) Today, capital punishment is limited only to the crime of murder in the first degree.
• B) The majority of executions in 2009 were done through lethal injection.
• C) Almost half the executions took place in Texas in 2009.
• D) Currently, there are more than 5,000 people on death row.

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Definitions:

Sexual Orientation

A person's emotional, romantic, and sexual attraction towards others, which can vary across a spectrum including homosexual, heterosexual, bisexual, asexual, among others.

Genetic Influence

The contribution of genes inherited from parents to the physical and behavioral characteristics of an individual.

Gender Identity

An individual's personal sense of their own gender, which may or may not correspond to the sex they were assigned at birth.

Sexual Orientation

An enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, or sexual attractions to men, women, both genders, neither gender, or another gender, along with one's sense of identity based on those attractions.