1. Nature of capital punishment Religions and capital punishment

2. Capital punishment subtitles Law and Justice
Different religions and justice
Theories of punishment
A religious prisoner of conscience
The Nature of capital punishment
Religious attitude to capital punishment

3. Capital punishment
Do you believe in Capital punishment?
Why not?

4. Capital punishment H/w:
Design 2 GCSE full questions using home learning questions of your choice

5. Capital punishment Outcomes:
All must learn the nature of capital punishment
Most should understand the non religious arguments for and against C.P.
All will choose a religious tradition and learn their attitudes to C.P.

6. Capital punishment Big picture: Nature of C.P Christianity and CP
Hand-out on chosen religion

7. Capital punishment
Keyword:
Capital punishment

8. Capital punishment Intro:
Capital punishment is a punishment that takes away the life of the criminal. It is also called execution or the death penalty. Capital punishment has not been used in the UK since 1970.

9. Capital punishment
Non- religious arguments in favour of capital punishment:
If people know that committing murder will lead to their execution, they will not murder
If murderers are executed, they are no longer a threat to society
The only punishment to fit the crime of taking a life is to take the murderer’s life

10. Capital punishment Non-religious arguments against capital punishment
Courts do convict innocent people and nothing can be done to release an innocent person who has been executed
Statistics show that countries that do not use the death penalty have a lower murder rate than those that do
Murderers do not expect to be caught when they commit their murders
Murderers sometimes try to commit suicide when they are serving life imprisonment, so prison must be a worse sentence than death

11. Capital punishment We have of course many more reasons:
Economical reasons: it is cheaper to kill than maintain in prison
Pseudo-religious reasons: God wants it this way!!!
Etc…..

12. Capital punishment
Now watch the extract making sure you understand the views of the people involved: jailors, condemned, victim’s family, condemned’s family…etc
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