RI Criminal Defense Attorney S. Joshua Macktaz found the article below interesting. Rhode Island would be one of thirty-five current states that still have the death penalty.
R.I. state senator wants to reinstate death penalty / Poll
January 17, 2012
By News staff
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- A Rhode Island state senator is seeking to reinstate the death penalty.
Should Rhode Island reestablish capital punishment? (818 votes)
Yes: 56.0% (458)
No: 42.5% (348)
Not sure: 1.5% (12)
Vote successfully recorded. Thank you.
Democratic Sen. John Tassoni said Tuesday the state must be empowered to execute society's worst criminals to deter violent crime and give justice to victims' families. He says his legislation was also motivated by Governor Chafee's decision last year to keep a man accused of murder in state custody when he could have faced a death penalty prosecution in federal court.
Tassoni's legislation would authorize the death penalty for those convicted of first-degree murder.
Rhode Island abolished capital punishment in 1852 but reintroduced it two decades later. Capital punishment was abolished again in 1984. The last execution in the state took place in 1845.
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