1. Capital punishment

2. What is capital punishment ?
• Capital punishment is when a person in
the wrong is put to death. It is also
known as the death penalty.

3. Reasons For
• Many people believes it saves more lives
as you are stopping the person from
killing again.
• Many people say it gives the family
closure.
• Would they confess if they were not
threaten by the death penalty ?
• People also argue that it states the
death penalty is supported in the bible.

4. Reasons Against
• It is very expensive.
• Innocent people can be killed.
• It is cruel.
• Some trials can be unfair and therefore
there are some flaws in the justice
system.

5. Video Links
• The Death Penalty Debate
• The Final 24 Hours
• Women On Death Row
• Death Row Stories
• Escape From Death Row
• Inside Death Row With Trevor McDonald
• Part 2
• Ted Bundy
• Timothy McVeigh
• Richard Ramirez
• Cameron Todd Willingham
• Story Of Capital Punishment
• Execution In Britain

6. Links
• http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/worldservic
e/learningenglish/witn/pdfs/070103_de
ath_penalty.pdf
• http://www.deathpenalty.org/downloads
/CurriculumFeb.2006.pdf
• http://www.deathpenalty.org/
• http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/0
711/071117-death_penalty.html

7. Amnesty International
• “We are ordinary people from across
the world standing up for humanity and
human rights.”