RECAP: CONFLICTING RIGHTS

Must understand that some rights conflict

with others
Should consider how to balance conflicting
rights
Could relate this to debates about
government policy

RECAP: CONFLICTING RIGHTS

1. Give an example of two rights that conflict with
each other?
2. How do these conflict with each other in real life?
3. Which of these rights do you think is more
important and why?
4. Give an example of a government policy (or
perhaps

proposed

government

policy)

that

VERSAL RIGHTS: CAPITAL PUNISHME

Learning Objective

21 November 2013

Form an opinion on this question:

Can you justify taking someones human rights
away?
Must know basic facts about capital
punishment
Should
considering arguments for and
against capital punishment
Could form an opinion on the question by
deciding which of the arguments are most

ANCIENT FORMS OF
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
Crucifixion
Being stoned to death
Decapitation
Being burnt alive
Hanging
Guillotining
Being fed alive to wild
animals
Being ripped apart by
horses running
in opposite directions
Being hurled from
rocks
Drowning
Drawing & Quartering

THE
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
QUIZ

True or False?
Which of the following are TRUE and FALSE?
140 men and women have been found innocent and released
from death row in the USA
Execution is cheaper than life imprisonment

Bristols last hanging was in 1963

Statistically, youre more likely to face the death penalty if your

victim is white

How much does California spend

every year on death penalty?

$184,000

$1,840,000

$18,400,000

$184,000,000

In China, how many people came

to see 30 convicted criminals be
put to death in 1983?
A

600

6,000

60,000

600,000

In 2011, how many people

were executed in China?

400

4,000

40,000

What percentage of funding do lawyers

defending criminals on death row
receive?
A

5%

15%

25%

50%

Since 1973 how many people on death

row have been released because it was
discovered
they had been wrongfully convicted?
A

Over 13

Over 130

Over 1300

Less than 10

Capital punishment around the

world
Name on of the countries which are
amongst the five biggest executioners
in the world?
USA
China
North Korea
Iran
Saudi Arabia

VERSAL RIGHTS: CAPITAL PUNISHME

Learning Objective

21 November 2013

Form an opinion on this question:

Can you justify taking someones human rights
away?
Must know basic facts about capital
punishment
Should
considering arguments for and
against capital punishment
Could form an opinion on the question by
deciding which of the arguments are most

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
Watch the video clips and listen
carefully.
Note down some arguments FOR
and AGAINST the death penalty in
your books:
For:

Against:

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

https://www.truetube.co.uk/film/death-row-convict
https://www.truetube.co.uk/film/death-penalty-deba
te
http://
www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/deterrence-states-without
-death-penalty-have-had-consistently-lower-murderrates

FOR THE DEATH PENALTY

To stop the person committing another
crime.
So the victim and/or their family have
justice.
Because if you take (or ruin) a life then
you lose your right to life.
An eye for and eye.
Death penalty makes an example of

GROUP DISCUSSIONS
Do you agree/disagree with capital punishment?
Why? Choose your three top reasons.
Complete this sentence in your books:
I agree (or) disagree with capital punishment. I believe you
can (or) cannot justify taking someones human rights away
because .

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
Learning Objective

19 November 2013

To investigate the case for and against capital

punishment.
Must know basic facts about capital
punishment
Should be able to make arguments for and
against capital punishment
Could form an opinion by evaluating which
are the most important arguments