death penalty PRESENTATION

PRESENTATION

Death Penalty

• Death penalty is an execution of an offender sentenced to death after convinction by a court of law of a criminal offense.

• Death penalty is prescribed for crimes considered capital offenses.

• Death penalty breaches human rights, in particular the right of life and the right to live free from torture or cruel treatment or punishment.

INTRODUCTION

• Death penalty has existed in the United States since colonial times. Its history is interviewed with slavery, segregation and social reform movements.
• The first established Death penalty laws date as far back as the Eighteenth Century BCE in the Code of King Hammurabi of Babylon, which codified the death penalty for 25 different crimes.
• Britain influenced America's use of death penalty more than any other country did. When European settles came to the new world they brought the practice of capital punishment.

HISTORY

• If murderers are sentenced to death and executed, pontential murders will think twice before killing, for fear of losing their own lives.
• Capitals sentences, when carried out, save innocent lives by permanently incapacitating murderers.
• It is a deterrent through its exemplary character.
• Some think that death penalty is right and should not be abolished, because they believe it is an effective tool for lowering crime rates.
• People in favor of death penalty believe that it is effective in achiving justice and in making criminals understand that prison is not enough to pay for the crimes they have committed.

ARGUMENTS FOR

• Death penalty is an irremediable punishment that can be inflicted even on innocent people. We must consider the importance of the right to life.
• Death penalty has negative effect on the family and friends of the convicted person.
• Death penalty is a symptom of a culture of violence, not a solution to it. Performing a death sentence, the State commits a murder and demostrates the same behaviour of the criminal.
• Death penalty is used disproportionately against the most disadventaged people, who belongs to the poor social class never has the economic means necessary to face a capital trial.
• The use of death penalty denies the possibility of rehabilitation and reconciliation of the person who committed a crime.

ARGUMENT AGAINST

• 41 countries abolished the death penalty from 1989 to 1999. Yet 39 nations, including the world's two largest economies, China and United States, remain "active retentionists", executing at least one person in the last 10 years.
• Recently, as death penalty, has been outlawed by many governments, over 70% of the world's nations have abolished it.
• Europe, Australia and many countries in the America have abolished the death penalty altogether, considering it a violation of human rights and an ineffective means of deterrence.

GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES

We are both for and against death penalty because on the one hand it is not fair that with only a few years in prison, horrible people who have committed horrendous crimes are able to escape and also it is not safe for the citizens let these criminals be roaming in the streets. But it's also not fair to the victim's family because if the criminal dies he cannot understand what he has done by remaining in prison forever.

OUR OPINIONS

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