Pros And Cons (Teacher`s Version)
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Pros And Cons (Teacher`s Version)
Im Original veränderbare Word-Dateien PROS AND CONS ... to be completed Copyright www.park-koerner.de Copyright www.park-koerner.de Copyright www.park-koerner.de THE RESTORATION OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT Introduction: Capital punishment was once common for a large number of crimes, especially property offences. Since the 1970s many states like Austria, Britain, Denmark, Germany and some individual states of the USA Copyright www.park-koerner.de Copyright www.park-koerner.de Copyright www.park-koerner.de have ABOLISHED CAPITAL PUNISHMENT ALTOGETHER; a number of other states have not done so but it is seldom or never INVOKED. However, the USA provides a good example, as over the last decade an increasing number of executions has taken place. Copyright www.park-koerner.de Leading to the discussion: Copyright www.park-koerner.de Copyright www.park-koerner.de After a spectacular murder case (taxidriver, kidnapped child suffocates in a box etc.) THERE ARE HEATED DISCUSSIONS about the pros and cons. REINTRODUCTION OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT? PROS CONS Copyright www.park-koerner.de Copyright www.park-koerner.de ===================================================================== Copyright www.park-koerner.de 1) Since its abolition the crime rate has There has never been any definite MULTIPLIED in all of the countries. proof that executions DETER So, regrettable as it may be, it must criminals. be reintroduced in order to deter Nobody can prove either that the present those elements who do not shrink crime rate would be lower if this from THREATENING OTHER punishment still existed. Copyright www.park-koerner.de Copyright www.park-koerner.de Copyright www.park-koerner.de PEOPLE’S LIVES. Comparisons among federal states in the USA with and without it show that it DOES NOT DETER MANY. In the "good old days" executions were an abominable spectacle for the population - normally only the lower class criminals were hanged, while the Copyright www.park-koerner.de Copyright Copyright www.park-koerner.de aristocracy lived according to www.park-koerner.de their own rules. Copyright www.park-koerner.de Kopierrechte (gedruckt und digital) für alle eigenen Schüler bei Erwerb Privatlizenz, für Verlag für digitale Unterrichtsvorbereitung alle Schüler und Lehrer der Schule bei Erwerb Schüler-Lehrer-Lizenz Im Original veränderbare Word-Dateien PROS CONS ===================================================================== 2) More criminals now carry very When someone is pursued by the police, dangerous weapons; fifty years ago the prospect of beingCopyright executedwww.park-koerner.de will not Copyright www.park-koerner.de Copyright www.park-koerner.de burglars went without firearms, but stop him from SHOOTING if he sees a as THE RISK OF HANGING has gone chance of saving his skin. they carry and use them in higher numbers and more readily. 3) Capital punishment rids society of its Capital punishment is definitive; a enemies; without it prisons are considerable number of cases are known OVERCROWDED, they cost Copyright money www.park-koerner.de where MISCARRIAGES of justice have Copyright www.park-koerner.de Copyright www.park-koerner.de (more cells, wardens, food, clothes), cost innocent people their lives. and there is always the danger of an No matter how many murderers were ESCAPE, RIOT OR PARDON. "deservedly" executed, just one mistake is one too many for any civilised society. 4) The idea of punishment is of ten ideally If re-education doesn't work, it is the linked with that of re-education. With best proof that it isn't done PROPERLY. hardened criminals, however, this In understaffed prisons convicts are Copyright www.park-koerner.de Copyright www.park-koerner.de Copyright www.park-koerner.de does not work. A reckless murderer locked up for 22 hours a day. If cannot be turned into a USEFUL successful reform work is to be done the MEMBER OF SOCIETY. conditions have to be changed in favour of the criminals who want to be TREATED FAIRLY, and who must be made to understand that society hasn't written them off. Then re-education will Copyright www.park-koerner.de Copyright www.park-koerner.de have a better chance.Copyright www.park-koerner.de 5) Execution is for some criminals a If prisoners are treated well, they can better alternative to waiting for death spend their prison terms sensibly: a few for fifty or sixty years. Some prisoners take to writing books, others make in America's death rows have even music. And with support they could turn asked for their execution because they to Christianity and REPENT THEIR want to get it over with - to them a SINS. This, of course, only works in Copyright www.park-koerner.de Copyright www.park-koerner.de Copyright life www.park-koerner.de sentence is the greater PUNISHreformed prison systems. MENT. So "locking them up and throwing the key away" is not the right APPROACH. Copyright www.park-koerner.de Copyright www.park-koerner.de Copyright www.park-koerner.de Copyright www.park-koerner.de Kopierrechte (gedruckt und digital) für alle eigenen Schüler bei Erwerb Privatlizenz, für Verlag für digitale Unterrichtsvorbereitung alle Schüler und Lehrer der Schule bei Erwerb Schüler-Lehrer-Lizenz Im Original veränderbare Word-Dateien PROS CONS ===================================================================== 6) It is certainly better if the family of a Such a way of thinking is utterly murdered person knows that the unchristian - it is against the roots of our Copyright www.park-koerner.de Copyright www.park-koerner.de Copyright www.park-koerner.de murderer cannot survive and triumph, belief to place the idea of revenge but that he will be punished in the higher than the PRINCIPLE OF same way. FORGIVENESS. By killing a murderer society does the same; it is then not SUPERIOR to the murderer. Yet, the old idea ‘an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth' was revised through the sufferingCopyright of Jesus www.park-koerner.de Christ. So Copyright www.park-koerner.de Copyright www.park-koerner.de modern Christian countries must abstain from capital punishment. 7) It is the government's obligation to PRESERVE law and order in the country. In this context capital punishment plays its part. Copyright www.park-koerner.de Regardless of whether someone is killed by AN INDIVIDUAL or a legal institution, the taking of somebody's life is a crime and sin and must not be allowed. Copyright www.park-koerner.de Copyright www.park-koerner.de -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Room for your ideas __________________________________ _____________________________________ __________________________________ _____________________________________ Copyright www.park-koerner.de Copyright www.park-koerner.de Copyright www.park-koerner.de __________________________________ _____________________________________ __________________________________ _____________________________________ Copyright www.park-koerner.de Copyright www.park-koerner.de Copyright www.park-koerner.de Copyright www.park-koerner.de Copyright www.park-koerner.de Copyright www.park-koerner.de Copyright www.park-koerner.de Kopierrechte (gedruckt und digital) für alle eigenen Schüler bei Erwerb Privatlizenz, für Verlag für digitale Unterrichtsvorbereitung alle Schüler und Lehrer der Schule bei Erwerb Schüler-Lehrer-Lizenz Im Original veränderbare Word-Dateien Which arguments were more convincing to you and why? Make a cross in the relevant box and explain why you think so: Copyright www.park-koerner.de Copyright www.park-koerner.de Copyright www.park-koerner.de PROS CONS Why -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1 [ ] [ ] ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ 2 [ ] [ ] Copyright www.park-koerner.de Copyright www.park-koerner.de 3 [ ] [ ______________________________________________________ Copyright www.park-koerner.de ______________________________________________________ ] ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ 4 [ ] [ ] ______________________________________________________ Copyright www.park-koerner.de Copyright www.park-koerner.de Copyright www.park-koerner.de 5 [ ] [ ______________________________________________________ ] ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ 6 [ ] [ ] ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ Copyright www.park-koerner.de 7 [ ] [ ] Copyright www.park-koerner.de Copyright www.park-koerner.de ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ Which of these arguments is, in your opinion, the most important one for or against the restoration of capital punishment? Copyright www.park-koerner.de Copyright www.park-koerner.de Copyright www.park-koerner.de _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ Copyright www.park-koerner.de Copyright www.park-koerner.de Copyright www.park-koerner.de Copyright www.park-koerner.de Kopierrechte (gedruckt und digital) für alle eigenen Schüler bei Erwerb Privatlizenz, für Verlag für digitale Unterrichtsvorbereitung alle Schüler und Lehrer der Schule bei Erwerb Schüler-Lehrer-Lizenz