DEATH%20PENALTY

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DEATH PENALTY
LO To investigate personal and religious views
on the Death Penalty
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Keyword

• Capital Punishment
• Is the ultimate
• punishment,
• it is the death penalty.

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Which countries have the death penalty?

• South Korea
  Nigeria
• Ghana Rwanda
• Iran
  Uganda
• United States France
• Ireland
  Egypt

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• Yes No
• United States Ireland
• Egypt Rwanda
• Nigeria France
• Iran South Korea
• Uganda Ghana

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Task

• Pros Cons
• http//www.truetube.co.uk/society/justice--equalit
  y/death-penalty-debate

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Add these to your list

• Against the death penalty
• YouTube - Abolish the death penalty
• Pro the death penalty
• YouTube - Pro-Death Penalty

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Weighing up the arguments

• In pairs make a list of reasons
• For Capital Punishment and a list against Capital
  Punishment.

You might want To reflect on the Images on the
next Slide for some Help
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Paired discussionInhumane or Humane?

• 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?

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Experts on capital punishment around
the world talk about the history of the death
penalty and the various methods of execution
available from lethal injection to stoning. They
also reveal which countries have the highest
execution rates, the cost of state-sanctioned
killing and whether it works as a
deterrent.http//www.truetube.co.uk/crime/punish
ment/live-or-die
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United States Capital Punishment

• 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)

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What are these?
The amount of people who have been executed in
the USA since 1976

• 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

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There are five methods of execution in the
United States
1). 2). 3) 4) 5)
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Can you name them?
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Answers

• Lethal injection
• Hanging
• Electric chair
• Gas
• Firing squad

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• What should people be given the death penalty
  for?

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Death row in USA

• 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

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Religious views

• Some Christians and Muslims are against the Death
  Penalty

• Some Christians and Muslims support the Death
  Penalty

It is wrong to say. All Christians or All
Muslims think
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Religion and Retribution
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
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• 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.

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Jesus Capital Punishment

• 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-tradi
  tions/jesus--capital-punishment

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Death Row The Convict

• 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

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Escaping the Death Penalty

• 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/escap
  ing-the-death-penalty

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Plenary

• Your views on the death penalty

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Key word Bingo!!!
Draw this template into your books! It needs to
be big enough to write 1 word in each square!
Choose 6 of the words in the box and put them in
the grid in your book!

• Execution
• Lethal injection
• Guillotine
• Firing squad
• Inhumane
• Justice
• Electric chair
• Crucifixion
• Punishment
• Hanging
• Deterrence
• Rehabilitation

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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