Capital Punishment

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Capital Punishment

• Methods (pp116-117)

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Capital Punishment- today

• Knowledge and Understanding historic and
  contemporary use of Capital Punishment in UK and
  world-wide (including overview of historic and
  current case studies), methods of execution, UN
  declarations. pp110-119
• Analysis Religious and secular viewpoints on
  the issues. pp 120-126
• Evaluation Comment on the strengths and
  weaknesses of viewpoints on capital punishment
  religious and moral implications for the
  individual and society. pp 120-126

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Discussion Point

• Do you think Capital Punishment is an acceptable
  sentence for crime?
• Are there any situations where CP is more
  acceptable than others?

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Issues we will return to

• How traumatic should CP be? What is the aim of
  CP (to kill/humiliate/degrade)?
• Should CP be public or private (a dignified
  death)?
• Should CP kill humanely and quickly?

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7 seconds

• Take seven seconds and look around you.
• What do you smell?
• What do you taste?
• What do you feel?

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7 seconds

• Our brains stores enough oxygen for seven seconds
  of consciousness.
• After beheading you would still have this amount
  of blood to keep you conscious.
• Some people say the shock would cause you to
  black out. But what if you didnt

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Methods Used Worldwide
There are 7 main methods of execution in current
use worldwide 

• Hanging if properly conducted, this is a humane
  method. The neck is broken and death comes
  quickly.
• However, if the free-fall distance is inadequate,
  the prisoner ends up slowly being strangled to
  death. If it is too great, the rope will tear
  his/her head off.

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• Electric chair Nobody knows for sure how
  quickly a person dies from the electric shock, or
  what pain they experience.

The internal organs are burned. It can often
take a few charges of electricity before the
person is killed.
http//www.youtube.com/watch?vHNB7NOEU3IM
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• Firing squad The prisoner is bound and shot
  through the heart by multiple marksmen. Death
  appears to be quick, assuming the killers don't
  miss. In the U.S., only Utah used this method. It
  was abandoned in favour of lethal injection on
  2004-MAR-15, except for four convicted killers on
  death row who had previously chosen death by
  firing squad.

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• Poison gas Cyanide is dropped into acid
  producing Hydrogen Cyanide, a deadly gas.
• This takes many minutes of agony before a person
  dies.

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• Lethal injection Lethal drugs are injected into
  the prisoner while he lays strapped down to a
  table. If properly conducted, the prisoner fades
  quickly into unconsciousness. If the dosage of
  drugs is too low, the person may linger for many
  minutes, experiencing paralysis. Executions in
  the U.S. are gradually shifting to this method.

http//www.youtube.com/watch?vdfiaDkK_sY8
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• Guillotine Be-heading A famous French
  invention. It severs the neck. Death comes very
  quickly (but very messy). (Be-heading in many
  Muslim countries).

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• Stoning The prisoner is often buried up to her
  or his neck and pelted with rocks until they
  eventually die. The rocks are chosen so that they
  are large enough to cause significant injury to
  the victim, but are not so large that a single
  rock will kill the prisoner. Used in some Muslim/
  African countries as a penalty for murder,
  adultery and other crimes.

http//www.youtube.com/watch?vMIaORknS1Dk http//
www.youtube.com/watch?vfPqNCr8KKdU
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From Times Gone by

• Burning at the stake in public was used in
  Britain to punish heresy and in some cases
  witchcraft, committed by either sex, but latterly
  for women convicted of High Treason or Petty
  Treason.

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The garrotte (or garotte) was the standard
civilian method of execution in Spain.
http//www.youtube.com/watch?vPov2ZtgO_r4
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• Hung, Drawn and Quartered - This was the ultimate
  punishment available in English law for men who
  had been convicted of High Treason. Women were
  burned at the stake instead, apparently for the
  sake of decency.

The full sentence passed upon those convicted of
High Treason up to 1870 was as follows That
you be drawn on a hurdle to the place of
execution where you shall be hanged by the neck
and being alive cut down, your privy members
shall be cut off and your bowels taken out and
burned before you, your head severed from your
body and your body divided into four quarters to
be disposed of at the Kings pleasure. So not
for the faint-hearted then!!
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Capital Punishment- today

• Knowledge and Understanding historic and
  contemporary use of Capital Punishment in UK and
  world-wide (including overview of historic and
  current case studies), methods of execution, UN
  declarations. pp110-119
• Analysis Religious and secular viewpoints on
  the issues. pp 120-126
• Evaluation Comment on the strengths and
  weaknesses of viewpoints on capital punishment
  religious and moral implications for the
  individual and society. pp 120-126

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• Your senses are lying to you.

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The State of Play

• Capital punishment has been used in almost every
  part of the globe, but in the last few decades
  many countries have abolished it. Abolitionist
  groups including Amnesty International classifies
  countries into four categories
• 58 countries maintain the death penalty in both
  law and practice.
• 94 have abolished it.
• 10 retain it for crimes committed in exceptional
  circumstances (such as in time of war).
• 35 permit its use for ordinary crimes, but have
  not used it for at least 10 years and are
  believed to have a policy or established practice
  of not carrying out executions or is under a
  moratorium.

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Status of the death penalty worldwide as of
2005-NOV
Status of the death penalty worldwide as of
2005-NOV
Blue Abolished for all crimes Green Abolished
for crimes not committed in exceptional
circumstances (such as crimes committed in time
of war) Orange Abolished in practice Red Legal
form of punishment for heinous offences.
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Since 2005

• Death Penalty Outlawed
• Argentina (2008)
• Chile (2008)
• Cook Islands (2007)
• Mexico (2005)
• Liberia (2005)
• Rwanda (2007)
• Uzbekistan (2008)
• Death Penalty Outlawed for normal crimes
• Kazakhstan (2007)
• Kyrgyzstan (2007

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The Death Penalty Worldwide

• According to Amnesty International, 137 countries
  have abolished the death penalty.
• Argentina, Chile, and Uzbekistan outlawed the
  death penalty in 2008.
• During 2007, 24 countries, 88 in China, Iran,
  Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and the United States
  alone, executed 1,252 people compared to 1,591 in
  2006.
• Nearly 3,350 people were sentenced to death in 51
  countries.
• More than 20,000 prisoners are on death row
  across the world.

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The Death Penalty is Permitted in

• Afghanistan, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas,
  Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize,
  Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, China
  (People's Republic), Comoros Congo (Democratic
  Republic), Cuba, Dominica, Egypt, Equatorial
  Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana,
  Guatemala, Guinea, Guyana, India, Indonesia,
  Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Korea North,
  Korea South, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho,
  Libya, Malawi, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nigeria, Oman,
  Pakistan, Palestinian Authority, Qatar, St. Kitts
  and Nevis St., Lucia St. Vincent and the
  Grenadines, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone,
  Singapore, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Syria,
  Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Trinidad
  and Tobago, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United
  States, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

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It is important to realise that the definition of
heinous offences varies greatly around the world.
In some states of the U.S. the death penalty is
restricted to multiple murderers. Engaging in
Pre-marital sex or changing one's religion can be
a capital offence in other countries.  
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• The year is 3577.

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Issues we can return to

• How traumatic should CP be? What is the aim of
  CP (to kill/humiliate/degrade)?
• Should CP be public or private (a dignified
  death)?
• Should CP kill humanely and quickly?

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Purpose and Capital Punishment

• To what extent does Capital Punishment?
• Gain retribution
• Reform
• Deter
• Protect

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Capital Punishment- Thursday

• Knowledge and Understanding historic and
  contemporary use of Capital Punishment in UK and
  world-wide (including overview of historic and
  current case studies), methods of execution, UN
  declarations. pp 110-115
• Analysis Religious and secular viewpoints on
  the issues.
• Evaluation Comment on the strengths and
  weaknesses of viewpoints on capital punishment
  religious and moral implications for the
  individual and society.

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Specifically

• Timothy Evans
• Ruth Ellis

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For Thursday 27th Aug

• Capital punishment is still legal in the United
  States of America
• Describe in detail two methods of execution in
  the USA. 4KU