This is my entry to the Tableau Storytelling Viz Contest. I wanted to draw attention to the issue of the capital punishment in the United States. US, along with Japan, are the only G8 countries where the death penalty is still legal and vigorously exercised. And with the number of executions conducted each year, US is ranked among countries like Iran, Iraq, China, North Korea or Saudi Arabia. Considering these countries’ human rights violation track record, US does not want to belong to that club…
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The last words are just incredible… “Luis Ramirez” sustained his inocense up to the last moment, was he inocent? that’s why there’s many against Capital punishment, ’cause not guilty people may be murdered with no reason…
Great Viz
Nice graphics and a lot of work putting it together I’m sure. What would be better to convince people would be a story of how those countries that don’t use the death penalty have lower crime rates than those that do, if that is true. I hope it is because I believe “thou shalt not kill” applies to the good guys too and if history proves anything, it’s that violence begets more violence.