For Capital Punishment and a list against Capital Punishment.
Is there a difference between killing someone legally and murdering someone?
Does it make sense to show killing is wrong by killing?
Are all methods of Capital punishment inhumane? Are some worse than others?
38 states in USA have the death penalty
38 states in USA have the death penalty
States with NO DEATH PENALTY
(Alaska,District of Columbia, Hawaii, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia, Wisconsin)
Texas - 355
Texas - 355
Virginia - 94
Oklahoma - 79
Missouri - 66
Florida - 60
Georgia - 39
North Carolina - 38
South Carolina, Alabama - 34 each
Louisiana, Arkansas - 27 each
Arizona - 22
Ohio - 19
Lethal injection
Lethal injection
Hanging
Electric chair
Gas
Firing squad
What should people be given the death penalty for?
What should people be given the death penalty for?
4.Murder by a state prison inmate who is serving a life sentence for any of five offences
4.Murder by a state prison inmate who is serving a life sentence for any of five offences
5.Multiple murders (serial killers)
6. Murder of an individual under six years of age
Some Christians and Muslims support the Death Penalty
Some Christians and Muslims support the Death Penalty
Some Christians and Muslims believe that punishment should happen but it is to change the criminal (Reform)
Some Christians and Muslims believe that punishment should happen but it is to change the criminal (Reform)
God will judge them in the end
However other Christians and Muslims are pro capital/ corporeal punishment- Sharia Law ( Islamic Law)- allows such punishments to teach others how not to behave.
Lots of Christians in America are pro death penalty ‘eye for an eye’.
An Anglican Bishop gives the Christian point of view on the death penalty. Three commonly held perspectives are explored, as well as the opportunity for change and redemption offered by the Christian faith.
An Anglican Bishop gives the Christian point of view on the death penalty. Three commonly held perspectives are explored, as well as the opportunity for change and redemption offered by the Christian faith.
An interview with Michael Johnson, a death row convict in the United States. Michael was sentenced to death for his part in the murder of a petrol station worker. Here he shares his thoughts and feelings about his time in prison and his imminent death.
An interview with Michael Johnson, a death row convict in the United States. Michael was sentenced to death for his part in the murder of a petrol station worker. Here he shares his thoughts and feelings about his time in prison and his imminent death.
An ex-murderer facing capital punishment talks about how he escaped execution in the USA. He believes that a death sentence is an expensive and even harmful solution to crime. His views are supported by a death penalty expert who favours life imprisonment for the most dangerous.
An ex-murderer facing capital punishment talks about how he escaped execution in the USA. He believes that a death sentence is an expensive and even harmful solution to crime. His views are supported by a death penalty expert who favours life imprisonment for the most dangerous.
