Death penalty present - Tran Huu Minh Quan

1. GROUP PRESENTATION
DEATH P ENALTY
Trần Hữu Minh Quân

2. INTRODUCTION
Death penalty:
• Is the highest level of punishment
• Is the hot issue in USA as well as all nations
• Create arguments:
Should be kept because it’s ultimate warning which
brings justice of the law to victims
Should be abolished because it’s against humanity

3. MORALITY
• Morality and Ethic play an important role
Government applies death penalty:
• Send wrong message to citizens: The point about killing
murderers who killed people is turned out to the result of
“Killing”
• Use murder to punish murderer.

4. PURPOSE OF PUNISHMENT
• Give criminals a lesson
Government applies death penalty:
• Criminals is taught precisely nothing because they’re no
longer alive to receive lesson.
• Can not rehabilitate a person by killing him.

5. DEATH PENALTY VS. LIFE IN PRISON
Death penalty:
• Can not change criminal’s mind
• Can not deterrent criminals
=> It serves no purpose.
• In 2011, US had a murder rate of 4.8 victims per 100,000—
meaning that nearly 14,000 people were victims of homicide.
• “The U.S., with the death penalty, has a higher
murder rate than the countries of Europe or
Canada, which do not use the death penalty”
Michigan State University

6. DEATH PENALTY VS. LIFE IN PRISON
Life in Prison:
• The pain of physical as well as mentally goes on with
criminals until the end of their life in prison.
• Prisoners are stuck to a cage where they're treated as animals.
• Suffer years of mental torment
=> The warning of life in prison is the best way to dissuade
criminals.

7. COST OF DEATH PENALTY
Death Penalty:
• Cost huge amount of money and 2-5 times more than keeping
that same criminal in prison for the rest of his life.
• Complex legal process
Waste time and money
• Between 1977 and 2002, US government has spent $250
million to execute 11 criminals

8. INNOCENT PEOPLE
• According to The Guardian News, there are approximately
4.1% of innocent people who have been sentenced to death
since 1970s.
Due to:
• Imperfect justice system
• Errors of attorneys

9. FALSE BELIEF OF TOP LAWYERS
Death penalty:
• Lead lawyer’s belief against the morality of death penalty
• Waste their talent
=> Increase the chances of releasing a guilty person

10. CONCLUSION
Death penalty should be abolished because:
• It’s against the morality
• it doesn’t deterrent criminals
• It costs huge amount of money and time