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Death penalty

Death penalty. A presentation by Esra, Josie & Marina. History/ death penalty USA. the death penalty had been abolished in 1972 but then it was adopt again in 1976 since this day there have been about 1000 executions on the 2nd of December 2005 there was the 1000th execution in America

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Death penalty

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  1. Death penalty A presentation by Esra, Josie & Marina

  2. History/ death penalty USA • the death penalty had been abolished in 1972 • but then it was adopt again in 1976 • since this day there have been about 1000 executions • on the 2nd of December 2005 there was the 1000th execution in America • about 3,500 people are still waiting for their execution • since the reintroduction about 200 people have been released from death row because they were innocent and this was proven • but innocent people have been killed anyway

  3. Political background • Since the 11th of September 2001 over 60% of the citizens in the USA approve of the death penalty • Therefore no politician wants to include the abolishment of the death penalty in his party programme

  4. FOR the crime rate will go down Future murderers are deterred the victim‘s relatives are satisfied the murderers get the same “punishment“ like their victims ->fair you can be sure: they never commit a crime again AGAINST everyone deserves a second chance sometimes innocent people are killed everyone has the right to live they are turning into murderers when they kill murderers some people are killed in a very cruel way nobody has the right to take somebody‘s life main arguments

  5. different ways of executions • lethal injection • electric chair • shooting • hanging • gas chamber • beheading • stoning

  6. beheading gas chamber

  7. States with death penalty • Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Bagladesh, Barbados, Belize, Botswanaa, Burundi, People‘s Republik China, Dominica, Eritrea, Gabon, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guyana, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Iran, Jamaica, Japan, Yemen, Jordan, Cameroon, Kazakhstan, Qatar, Kirgisistan, the Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, North Korea, South Korea, Cuba, Kuwait, Laos, Lesotho, Lebanon, Lybia, Malawi, Malaysia, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine Liberation Organisation, Philippines, Rwanda, Zambia, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe, Singapore, Somalia, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Sudan, Swaziland, Syria, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Chad, Uganda, USA (in 38 federal states and in the federal law), Uzbekistan, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam, Belarus

  8. Du you think death penalty is against human rights??? Yes No I don‘t know

  9. Average number of executions per year from The other states carried out less than one execution a year

  10. Death penalty has been abolished Death penalty abolished in peacetime Death penalty is not executed Death penalty is still applied

  11. planned executions • December 5-9* Wesley Baker Maryland 7* Tony Ford Texas 8 Leroy Fears Pennsylvania 13* Stanley Williams California • January (2006)17* Clarence Ray Allen California 19* John Spirko Ohio 19* Julius Murphy Texas 25* Marion Dudley Texas 31* Jaime Elizalde Texas • February 7* Gregory Thompson Tennessee 15* Clyde Smith Texas • March 22* Robert Salazar Jr. Texas • April 25* Pedro Sosa Texas • June 28* Paul Reid Tennessee

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