Crime and Punishment

What is capital punishment?

• The practice of executing someone as a punishment.

• Volunteering someone to be executed in your place.

• When your punishment is decided by the victim's family.

• Being placed in jail until you die.

Select 3 methods of capital punishment.

• Gas chamber

• Jail time

• Beheading

• Lethal injection

• Community service

Select all countries where capital punishment is legal.

• China

• Pakistan

• Iran

• Sudan

• USA

Which organisation works for the abolition of the death penalty in all countries?

• The Courts

• Greenpeace

• Marie Curie

• Amnesty International

List 3 arguments that support the use of the death penalty as a punishment for crime.

List 3 arguments that do not support the use of the death penalty as a punishment for crime.

Overall, do teachings from the Old Testament support the use of capital punishment?

• Yes

• No

Do Jesus' teachings in the New Testament support the use of the death penalty?

• Yes

• No

Summarise church teaching on capital punishment.

Select all aims of punishment.

• Protection

• Deterrence

• Vindication

• Retribution

• Reformation