1.

Find your name and stand

EXPECTATIONS
quietly behind your chairs
2.Pencil cases and planners out
quickly
3. You can sit down when you
have them out

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NOVEMBER

Friday 21st

Capital punishment
Learning Objective: To understand the debate around capital
punishment and to able to form a judgement on the topic

What is Capital
Punishment?

Capital punishment, or
the death penalty, is the
execution of a criminal
by the state

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RECAP
What have we learned from watching Let Him
Have it?
What does it tell you
about capital
punishment?
Does it always work?

In pairs, write down two

points you have learned
Be ready to share with
the rest of the group

When did
Britain stop
using
capital
punishment
?

5 MINS

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Friday 21st
NOVEMBER
ENTRY/STARTER ACTIVITY

Who decides if its right?

Can you think of any crimes

that justify capital punishment?

Types of capital punishment?

Hanging? Painful?

On your own,
draw a mind map
and think about
if you agree with
capital
punishment
Is it ever
right to take a
mans life?

Can you deserve to die?

What if a mistake has

happened?

Religion?

5 MINS
In silence

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FRIDAY 21st

ACTIVITY ONE

Card sort arrange the cards into a for and against

pile
Then decide which is the most important for argument
and which is the most important against argument

10 MINS
QUIETLY IN
PAIRS

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FRIDAY 21st

TABLE FILL IN

Fill in table in your preferred order..

FOR

AGAINST

Mistakes - innocent people will be killed. Many

The family of a murder victim cannot get on with their death-row inmates have been released due to new
evidence.
lives until the murderer is dead
Cost - it costs 27,000 per year for the average
prisoner, more for serious offenders. Why waste that
money?
Protection - once killed, a very dangerous criminal is
no longer a threat
Deterrence - people will be scared of the death
penalty and will not kill others

It is hypocritical - you kill someone because you hate

the idea of killing someone
Only God should take life
Apart from innocent people being killed, the
trauma of an innocent fighting a death penalty is
far worse than just appealing a conviction

Murderers are still people (or 'children of God made

Retribution - a murderer has taken someone's life,
in His image'). It is wrong to kill
which can never be brought back, and deserves to die

The Bible says 'an eye for an eye' - it is God's justice

The majority of people want the death penalty - it is

democratic

Life imprisonment not harsh enough

for some crimes

Justice - the death penalty is never used fairly. In

America, rich, white people are likely to be able to
afford lawyers to get them off, so more poor black
people end up dying
It turns someone into a murderer

It is barbaric, painful and inhuman

5MINS
QUIETLY

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FRIDAY 21st
NOVEMBER
RELIGIOUS VIEW POINTS
Complete the Christianity worksheet
Then have a go at:
The Death Penalty should be brought back into Britain.
Do1.you
Firstagree?
paragraph :
state what the death penalty is
give your opinion as to whether it should be brought back

2.

Second paragraph:
reasons for

3.

Third paragraph
reasons against

4.

fourth paragraph
two religious points of view

5.

Conclusion

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NOVEMBER

FRIDAY 21st

ACTIVITY THREE

Add any new information in green to

your mind map Is it ever
right to take
a mans life?

5 MINS

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FRIDAY 21st

ACTIVITY FOUR
PRACTISE QUESTION

1.

The Death Penalty should be brought back into Britain.

Do you agree?
First paragraph :
state what the death penalty is
give your opinion as to whether it should be brought back

2.

Second paragraph:
reasons for

3.

Third paragraph
reasons against

4.

fourth paragraph
two religious points of view

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FRIDAY 21st
NOVEMBER
WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED

TODAY?
Each person tell us one thing they learned today and
whether they agree if capital punishment should be
allowed..

5 MINS