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There is no social issue more controversial than capital punishment. People who support it think it is the best way to deter criminals from committing murders other heinous acts against society. But to people who oppose the death penalty, it's just an example of man's primitive instinct of revenge.
Capital punishment can take many forms. In the United States the most common form is the electric chair, where criminals are strapped in a wooden chair and electrocuted. Other forms are hanging by the neck, being shot by a firing squad, or lethal injection.
Many advanced nations such as Canada and Great Britain have abolished it, but Americans are still undecided and cannot all agree on what to do about it. The U.S Supreme Court banned capital punishment in 1972 but legalized it again in 1977. Today some states allow it, but others don't.
Each state is allowed to determine for itself whether it will use it or not. As of 1996, 38 states had the death penalty; 12 states did not. In 1996 the youngest inmate on death row was 17, the oldest was 81.
A good example of the indecision Americans have on the subject is the state of New York, where the death penalty was legal until 1965, abolished in that year and then reinstated in 1995. Nobody can say whether it will be abolished again in the future.
There are good reasons both for and against the use of the death penalty. Arguments against using capital punishment:
* It doesn't stop murders and other vicious crimes from being committed.
* Only God can take a life: one man doesn't have the right to take another man's life
* The act of killing a man even under a the law is still murder and can never be justified.
* Innocent people have been killed. There have been several cases where people were convicted of crimes and sentenced to death, only to be found innocent later. Opponents of the death penalty say that even one innocent person dying is too many.
Proponents of the death penalty give the following reasons why it should be used.
* It is a strong deterrent to would-be murderers.
* Murder rates are much lower in states which have the death penalty.
Q1) What's tour opinion of capital punishment? Tell why you think so.
a. I support it.
b. I'm against it.
Q2) If you answered a, which of these methods of capital punishment do you support?
*electric chair *hanging *firing squad *lethal injection
If you answered b, what's the main reason why you don't support it?
*it's same as murder *innocent people could be killed *doesn't lower the murder rate
Q3) Do you think that having the death penalty reduces murders? Why do you think so?
Q4) Some people think that life imprisonment(in prison untill dying)is even worse than capital punishment because the criminal suffers longer. What do you think of that? Tell why you think so.
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Capital punishment can take many forms. In the United States the most common form is the electric chair, where criminals are strapped in a wooden chair and electrocuted. Other forms are hanging by the neck, being shot by a firing squad, or lethal injection.
Many advanced nations such as Canada and Great Britain have abolished it, but Americans are still undecided and cannot all agree on what to do about it. The U.S Supreme Court banned capital punishment in 1972 but legalized it again in 1977. Today some states allow it, but others don't.
Each state is allowed to determine for itself whether it will use it or not. As of 1996, 38 states had the death penalty; 12 states did not. In 1996 the youngest inmate on death row was 17, the oldest was 81.
A good example of the indecision Americans have on the subject is the state of New York, where the death penalty was legal until 1965, abolished in that year and then reinstated in 1995. Nobody can say whether it will be abolished again in the future.
There are good reasons both for and against the use of the death penalty. Arguments against using capital punishment:
* It doesn't stop murders and other vicious crimes from being committed.
* Only God can take a life: one man doesn't have the right to take another man's life
* The act of killing a man even under a the law is still murder and can never be justified.
* Innocent people have been killed. There have been several cases where people were convicted of crimes and sentenced to death, only to be found innocent later. Opponents of the death penalty say that even one innocent person dying is too many.
Proponents of the death penalty give the following reasons why it should be used.
* It is a strong deterrent to would-be murderers.
* Murder rates are much lower in states which have the death penalty.
Q1) What's tour opinion of capital punishment? Tell why you think so.
a. I support it.
b. I'm against it.
Q2) If you answered a, which of these methods of capital punishment do you support?
*electric chair *hanging *firing squad *lethal injection
If you answered b, what's the main reason why you don't support it?
*it's same as murder *innocent people could be killed *doesn't lower the murder rate
Q3) Do you think that having the death penalty reduces murders? Why do you think so?
Q4) Some people think that life imprisonment(in prison untill dying)is even worse than capital punishment because the criminal suffers longer. What do you think of that? Tell why you think so.
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