Capital punishment

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Capital punishment
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• Submitted by Ieva Butrimaviciute PNVbd6-01

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Content

• Reasons for having capital punishment
• Reasons against capital punishment
• Countries where capital punishment still exists
• Countries where capital punishment has been
  abolished.

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Arguments for having a death penalty

• It is a legitimate expression of moral
  indignation
• Those who deliberately take a life shall pay with
  their own
• It is the rule of law.

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Arguments against capital punishment

• It is a cruel, inhuman, degrading treatment
• Capital punishment is the ultimate denial of
  human rights
• The death penalty kills innocent people
• The death penalty does not serve as a detterent
  to murder and crime
• It is disproportionately imposed upon the poor,
  on racial minorities, on the mentally disabled
  people.

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Countries where capital punishment still exists

• Countries which retain the death penalty for
  ordinary crimes (68)
• United States of America, Japan, Cuba,
  Pakistan, Libya, Somalia, Taiwan, United Arab
  Emirates, Zambia, Kuwait, India, Malaysia,
  Mongolia, Singapore.

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Countries which have abolished the death penalty

• Abolitionist for all crimes
• Abolitionist for ordinary crimes only
• Abolitionist in practice.

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• 1. Abolitionist for all crimes (88)
• Portugal, Denmark, Luxembourg, Lithuania,
  Nicaragua, Norway, France, Australia, Canada,
  Turkey, Mexico, United Kingdom, Belgium, Estonia,
  Spain, Sweden, Angola, Armenia, Philippines
  (2006).

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• 2. Abolitionist for ordinary crimes only (11)
• Albania, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazilia, Chile,
  Cook Islands, El Salvador, Fiji, Israel, Latvia,
  Peru.
• 3. Abolitionist in practice (30)
• Algeria, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya,
  Madagascar, Mali, Morocco, Russian Federation,
  Sri Lanka, Suriname, Tunisia.

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