LO: To investigate personal and religious views on the Death Penalty
Capital Punishment: Is the ultimate punishment, it is the death penalty.
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Pros Cons
http://www.truetube.co.uk/society/justice--equality/death-penalty-debate
Against the death penalty YouTube - Abolish the death penalty
Pro the death penalty YouTube - Pro-Death Penalty
Add these to your list
In pairs make a list of reasons: For Capital Punishment and a list against
Capital Punishment.
You might wantTo reflect on the
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Is there a difference between killing someone legally and murdering someone?
Does it make sense to show
killing is wrong by killing?
Are all methods of Capital punishment inhumane? Are some worse than others?
38 states in USA have the death penalty
States with NO DEATH PENALTY (Alaska,District of Columbia, Hawaii, Iowa,
Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia, Wisconsin)
Texas - 355 Virginia - 94 Oklahoma - 79 Missouri - 66 Florida - 60 Georgia - 39 North Carolina - 38 South Carolina, Alabama -
34 each Louisiana, Arkansas - 27
each Arizona - 22 Ohio - 19
Indiana - 16 Delaware - 14 Illinois - 12 Nevada, California - 11 each Mississippi, Utah - 6 each Maryland, Washington - 4
each Nebraska, Pennsylvania - 3
each Kentucky, Montana, Oregon -
2 each Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho,
New Mexico, Tennessee, Wyoming - 1 each
US government - 3
The amount of people who have been
executed in the USA since 1976
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2)………………….
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5)………………….
Can you name them?
Lethal injectionHangingElectric chairGasFiring squad
What should people be given the death penalty for?
4.Murder by a state prison inmate who is serving a life sentence for any of five offences
5.Multiple murders (serial killers)
6. Murder of an individual under six years of age
1. If you kill a police officer/ jail warden
2. Murder whilst kidnapping, burglary, robbery, aggravated sexual assault, arson ( fire)
3. Murder during prison escape
Some Christians and Muslims
support the Death Penalty
Some Christians and Muslims are
against the Death Penalty
It is wrong to say….
All Christians or All Muslims think …………
Christians & Muslims Against the Death Penalty
‘ You shall not murder’
Christians & Muslims For the Death Penalty
‘ An eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth’
Some Christians and Muslims believe that punishment should happen but it is to change the criminal (Reform)
God will judge them in the end
However other Christians and Muslims are pro capital/ corporeal punishment- Sharia Law ( Islamic Law)- allows such punishments to teach others how not to behave.
Lots of Christians in America are pro death penalty ‘eye for an eye’.
An Anglican Bishop gives the Christian point of view on the death penalty. Three commonly held perspectives are explored, as well as the opportunity for change and redemption offered by the Christian faith.
http://www.truetube.co.uk/global/customs-and-traditions/jesus--capital-punishment
An interview with Michael Johnson, a death row convict in the United States. Michael was sentenced to death for his part in the murder of a petrol station worker. Here he shares his thoughts and feelings about his time in prison and his imminent death.
http://www.truetube.co.uk/crime/punishment/life-on-death-row
An ex-murderer facing capital punishment talks about how he escaped execution in the USA. He believes that a death sentence is an expensive and even harmful solution to crime. His views are supported by a death penalty expert who favours life imprisonment for the most dangerous.
http://www.truetube.co.uk/crime/punishment/escaping-the-death-penalty
Your views on the death penalty
Execution Lethal injection Guillotine Firing squad Inhumane Justice Electric chair Crucifixion Punishment Hanging Deterrence Rehabilitation
Choose 6 of the words in the box
and put them in the grid in your book!
Draw this template into your books! It needs to be big enough to write 1 word
in each square!
Outcome check Can you.. explain the terms capital punishment and death penalty
Can you… explain arguments for and against the death penalty
Can you… evaluate different religious views on the death penalty and give your own opinions
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