CAPITAL CAPITAL PUNISHMENTPUNISHMENT

Presented by: Fahad Bokhari 09-arid-1406

The Death Penalty

• When someone is on Death-row,

they are held in cells until it is

their time to be executed for committing

horrible crimes.

History of the Punishment

• First recorded death penalty (Hammurabi)• Brought to U.S. by Britain when colonized• Penalty under constant scrutiny

History Cont…

• 1972 death penalty suspended: considered “cruel and unusual”

• States rewrote statutes to eliminate the problem

Forms of Capital Punishment

• BEHEADING

• LETHEL INJECTION

• POISON

• ELECTRIFICATION

• GUILLOTINE

• SHOOTING

• DEATH BY STONING

• HANGING

Compassion ?…No

• Many people believe it is unethical to execute someone and that it’s an injustice. I disagree, the death penalty is a crime deterrent, gives families retribution for loved ones, and helps prevent recidivism. It would be an injustice to abolish the penalty.

The theories of punishment ; why does the State punish criminals?

1. Vengeance2. Retribution3. Deterrence4. Incapacitation

Vengeance

Human emotion that is normal in family members of murder victims, but it can never be used to justify a public policy given that policies are supposed to be based on reason and empirical science 

Retribution

• If someone in your family were murdered, would

you want that person to be punished ?

• …………………… ????

Deterrent

• If people don’t have anything to fear they will do as they please

• Capital punishment makes people think twice.

Incapacitation

• Taking away a person's freedom so that he or she cannot commit another crime. 

• The ultimate form of incarceration is death. 

Recidivism

• When a dog gets into the hen house it has to be put down because it will continue to do it

• Could the same not apply to humans ?

Examples of Capital Punishment

Assassination of political personalities

• President of Iraq

(Saddam Hussain)

• Prime Minister of

Pakistan (Zulfiqar Ali

Bhutto)

Conclusion

Effective way to deter crime

Solution

The best solution to stopping the injustice of putting an end to capital punishment is to go out and vote for the legislatures that keep it running