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Title: Capital Punishment


1
Capital Punishment
  • Methods (pp116-117)

2
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

3
Discussion Point
  • Do you think Capital Punishment is an acceptable
    sentence for crime?
  • Are there any situations where CP is more
    acceptable than others?

4
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?

5
7 seconds
  • Take seven seconds and look around you.
  • What do you smell?
  • What do you taste?
  • What do you feel?

6
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

7

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.

11
  • Poison gas Cyanide is dropped into acid
    producing Hydrogen Cyanide, a deadly gas.
  • This takes many minutes of agony before a person
    dies.

12
  • 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
13
  • Guillotine Be-heading A famous French
    invention. It severs the neck. Death comes very
    quickly (but very messy). (Be-heading in many
    Muslim countries).

14
  • 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.

16
The garrotte (or garotte) was the standard
civilian method of execution in Spain.
http//www.youtube.com/watch?vPov2ZtgO_r4
17
  • 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

19
  • Your senses are lying to you.

20
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.

21
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

23
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.

24
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?

28
Purpose and Capital Punishment
  • To what extent does Capital Punishment?
  • Gain retribution
  • Reform
  • Deter
  • Protect

29
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.

30
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
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