Chapter 11 Test Questions

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. The overall cost of the death penalty in California is:

Over $500 million correct incorrect

Over $1 billion correct incorrect

Over $4 billion correct incorrect

Over $7 billion correct incorrect

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. Federal District Court Judge, Cormac Carney, vacated the death sentences of how many California death row inmates?

250 correct incorrect

558 correct incorrect

623 correct incorrect

748 correct incorrect

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. What is the age of the oldest inmate executed in the U.S. since 1976?

67 correct incorrect

77 correct incorrect

85 correct incorrect

90 correct incorrect

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. According to the DPIC, if the sentences of all prisoners on California's death rows were commuted to life without parole there would be a savings of how much money per year?

No savings-it would cost about the same correct incorrect

It would cost more to commute the inmates to life without parole correct incorrect

$10 million correct incorrect

$130 million correct incorrect

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. Adding all the stages of a death penalty trial or a LWOP trial, the estimated average number of court days is:

No significant difference between the two trials correct incorrect

Nearly 2 months for a death penalty trial and 1 month for a LWOP trial correct incorrect

Nearly 5 months for a death penalty trial and 1 month for a LWOP trial correct incorrect

Nearly 1 month for a death penalty trial and 5 months for a LWOP trial correct incorrect

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. A civil law process that challenges the legality of a person's confinement and is a court order requiring that an arrested person be brought before it to determine the legality of his or her detention is called:

A direct appeal correct incorrect

Habeas corpus correct incorrect

An indirect appeal correct incorrect

Voir dire process correct incorrect

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. In a habeas corpus appeal, new evidence and new arguments are not allowed.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. After the AEDPA was introduced to speed up the process from sentencing to execution by imposing a one-year limit on filing habeas appeals, the average time from sentencing to execution has:

Decreased one year correct incorrect

Decreased five years correct incorrect

Increased five years correct incorrect

None of the above correct incorrect

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. One of the most common complaints crime victims and their families have about the death penalty is:

The criminal is glorified in the press correct incorrect

Crime victims and their families are practically ignored by the criminal justice system correct incorrect

The amount of time it takes for the trial and sentencing correct incorrect

It does not necessarily bring closure to the family correct incorrect