capital punishment mindmap
- Created by: Leah Glennon
- Created on: 15-04-13 20:41
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- Capital Punishment
- The death penalty is still legal in many countries including the USA(37/50 states), Iran, Libya, Rwanda, North Korea and 65 other countries worldwide
- Modern methods of capital punishment
- lethal injection
- electric chair
- firing squad
- gas chamber
- beheading
- capital punishment in the UK was abolished in 1969 permanently
- in 1999 britain signed the european convention on human rights which sated the death penalty could not be reintroduced
- crimes that lead to the death penalty in the us
- first degree murder
- treason
- capital drug trafficking
- capital sexual battery
- aggravated kidnapping
- aircraft hijacking
- perjury resulting in death
- aggravated **** of victin under age 12
- captial sexual assault
- arguments for the death penalty
- retribution- 'a life for a life'
- deterrence- the death penalty deters people from committing horrendous crimes because they know if they get caught they'll die
- protection- the public needs to be protected because those who are given life sentences are often let out after about 15 years
- it costs tax payers thousands to keep murderers in prison
- arguments against the death penalty
- mistakes - innocent people have been executed before
- protection - putting murderers in prison protects society
- only god has the right to end someones life
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