The Pros & Cons

 Putting a condemned person to death

 Eighteenth Century B.C. (1700 BC)  Code of Hammaurabi, Babylon codified the death penalty for 25 different crimes  Fifth Century B.C. (400 BC)  Twelve Tablets, Roman Republic  Methods: crucifixion, drowning, beating to death, burning alive, and impalement  Middle Ages ( AD)  Methods (Trials by ordeal): boiling, burning at the stake, hanging, beheading, and drawing and quartering  Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries ( s AD)  Crimes punishable by death penalty in Europe: stealing, cutting down a tree, and robbing a rabbit warren

 Hanging  Firing Squad  Electrocution  Gas Chamber  Lethal Injection

 Link to state comparison maps  09.shtml 09.shtml  Choose “Interactive Maps” under State-by-State Data  Choose “Methods of Execution”  Have students  Choose two states as well as Georgia  Write down all the methods available in each state  Discuss

 Put students into four groups  Assign each group one of the following arguments:  Deterrence  Retribution  Innocence  Arbitrariness & Discrimination  Individually, students will read about their argument and take notes  As a group, students will make a poster showing the pros/cons of their argument