Capital Punishment

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Capital Punishment

• L.O
• To know what Capital punishment is.
• To reflect on the arguments for and against
  capital Punishment.

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What have these 38 States got in Common?

• Alabama Arizona Arkansas California, Colorado
  Delaware Florida Georgia Idaho Illinois
  Indiana Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maryland
  Mississippi, Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada
  New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York
  North Carolina Ohio Oklahoma Oregon
  Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South
  Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Washington
  Wyoming

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

• 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

• 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

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Keyword

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

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Dead Man Walking

• Watch the Clips from Dead Man Walking

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My opinion

• Do you agree/disagree with Capital punishment?
• Write down your ideas in your book give reasons
  for your answer!

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Methods of Capital Punishment

• Draw a mind map in your book.
• Write Methods of Capital Punishment in the
  centre.
• As we read through the slides which follow,
  summarise each method using no more than 10 words.

Capital Punishment
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Electric Chair
E _ _ c _ r _ _ C _ a _ _
The current surges and is then turned off, at
which time the body is seen to relax. The doctors
wait a few seconds for the body to cool down and
then check to see if the inmate's heart is still
beating.

• For execution by the electric chair, the
  person is usually shaved and strapped to a chair
  with belts that cross the chest, groin, legs, and
  arms. A metal skullcap-shaped electrode is
  attached to the scalp and forehead over a sponge
  moistened with saline. A jolt of between 500 and
  2000 volts, which lasts for about 30 seconds, is
  given.

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Hanging

• The neck is broken and death comes quickly unless
  the free fall distance is inadequate and the
  prisoner ends up being slowly strangled to death.
  If the distance is to great the rope will tear
  the prisoners head off .
• This was used in the UK for many years!

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Firing Squad

• A black hood is pulled over the prisoner's head.
  A doctor locates the inmate's heart with a
  stethoscope and pins a circular white cloth
  target over it. The prisoner is shot through the
  heart by multiple marksmen. Death is quick.

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The Guillotine

• A famous French invention severing the neck.
  Death is quick.
• Many famous Queens died in this way.

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Lethal Injection

• Lethal drugs are injected into the prisoner who
  is strapped to a table. If the dosage is too low
  the person may linger for many minutes,
  experiencing paralysis.
• Post mortems have been carried out showing that
  the levels of anaesthetic in many cases is very
  low.
• Many people consider this the most humane way as
  it looks as if the person is going to sleep
  this is not the case.
• The first drug paralyses all of their muscles so
  that they are unable to show pain visibly
  however they are in pain.

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Crucifixion

• Jesus was brutally put to death by crucifixion, a
  roman method of capital punishment, also used by
  the Japanese during World War II.
• It takes hours if not days to die in this way.

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Methods of capital punishment used in Ireland
Britian

• Hanging has been the principal form of execution
  in Ireland Britainsince the 5th Century,
  although other methods such as
• drowning,
• burial alive,
• hurling from cliffs
• boiling alive,
• burning at the stake
• shooting.

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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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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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Kenneth Boyd video clip

• Watch and listen to the news report carefully.
• What arguments for and against the death penalty
  are shown?

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Capital Punishment is always wrong. Do you
agree?

• Some people agree with this statement
  because.
• However on the other hand some people disagree
  because..
• Religious people may say that..
• My opinion on this issue is.

Remember to use the arguments that were discussed
in the film Dead Man.
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Peer Assessment

• Swap your answer with your partner.
• Assess their answer and give it a level according
  to the level assessment grid.

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Level Description
1 A simple sentence to explain a viewpoint.
2 An opinion given backed up by an example/s.
3 A simple two sided discussion of the statement with your own opinion.
4 A well explained two sided discussion of the statement, with your own opinion given with a reason/s.
5 A well explained two sided discussion of the statement, with your own opinion explained in detail and backed up by examples. You refer to the moral issues.
6 As above but in addition the religious implications are explored in detail.
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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
• Kenneth Boyd
• Hanging
• Deterrence
• Rehabilitation

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Have we met the L.O of todays lesson?

• To know what Capital punishment is.
• To reflect on the arguments for and against
  capital Punishment.