Capital Punishment:

Debate

Life is precious. Preserve it!

Instructions: Divide in groups. Two teams. Keep discussion low due to “Pruebas

Puertoriqueñas” No screaming!!!!!!!!!!

The Electric Chair What is it?

Capital Punishment Capital punishment, the death

penalty, death sentence, or execution, is a legal process whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences.

Execution of criminals has been used by nearly all societies, both to punish crime and to suppress political dissent.

In most places that practice capital punishment it is reserved for murder, espionage, treason, or as part of military justice.

In some countries, sexual crimes, such as rape, adultery, incest, and sodomy carry to the death penalty, as do religious crimes such as apostasy in Islamic nations.

In countries that use the death penalty, drug trafficking is a capital offense

In China, human trafficking and serious cases of corruption are punished by the death penalty.

In militaries around the world, court-martial have imposed death sentences for offenses such as cowardice, desertion, insubordination, and mutiny.

Debate: Questions

How should the crimes mentioned be punished without using capital punishment?

Do you think life should be taken away by any means?

Do you think killing is a justifiable act?

Do you think death penalty should be abolished?

Who do you think, in this world, has the authority to take life away?

Review What have you learned today?