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General information - Famous trials
Statistics - US interactive maps - World maps - Methods of execution -
The pros and cons - For the death penalty - Against the death penalty - For alternatives
Articles / Documents - Ads - Cartoons - Art - Tapes -
Animations - Films - Songs - Literature -
Humour -
Lesson plans - Webquests - Interactive quizzes -
Glossary

 


Pages complémentaires :

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Death :
Vocabulary - Dictionary - Listening - Cliparts - "Grammar" -
History - Quotations - Superstitions - Idioms - Proverbs and Sayings -
Interactive exercises - Exercises to print - Webquests - Lesson plans - Poems -
Conversation Questions - Cartoons - Posters - Ads - Photos -
Songs - Literature - FLASH Animations

 

 

 

WORLD MAPS

 

 

  • Capital punishment (Wikipedia)
    1 Terminology
    2 History
    3 The death penalty worldwide
    4 Ethical views on capital punishment
    5 Religious views on capital punishment
    6 Methods of execution
    7 The death penalty in arts and media ...

 

  • La peine de mort dans le monde - Cartes détaillées (thierry.destenay)

 

 

 

METHODS OF EXECUTION

     

  • Utah firing squad executes US killer Ronnie Lee Gardner
    "The US has carried out its first execution by firing squad in 14 years."
    (BBC)

  • Utah murderer Gardner chooses death by firing squad
    "Of the 35 US states that have the death penalty, Utah is the only one to give firing squads as an option."
    (BBC)

  • Ohio man first US person executed by single injection
    "The US state of Ohio has become the first in the country to carry out an execution with a single-drug injection, instead of a combination of three...
    Other states which have the death penalty were reported to be watching closely but some - including Florida, Kentucky, Texas and Virginia - have said they intend to keep the triple-drug method.
    Of the 36 death penalty states which have lethal injection as a means of execution, all but Ohio favour the three-drug method.    "
    (BBC)

 

  • Methods of execution (procedure, history, current application) - (clarkprosecutor.org)

 

  • Methods of Execution :
    Authorized Methods / Authorized Methods by State / News and Information /
    Description of Each Method / Botched Executions
    (deathpenaltyinfo.org)
  • Famous Executions :
    The Rosenbergs - Bruno Hauptmann - Charlie Starkweather & Caril Ann Fugate     (courttv.com)

 


 

THE PROS AND CONS

 

  • Capital punishment - a debate : Is it ever justifiable to execute criminals? (debatabase.org)


  • Essay on capital punishment. - Lien modifié
    "Two different cases can be made. One is based on justice and the nature of a moral community.
    This leads to a defense of capital punishment. The second is based on love and the nature of an ideal spiritual community.
    This leads to a rejection of capital punishment."
    (frontiernet.net)

  • Arguments for and against (Michigan State University) - Lien modifié
    - "Click on AGREE and DISAGREE to read both sides of each argument". (deathpenaltyinfo.msu.edu)
  • Discussion of the pros and cons of capital punishment, or the death penalty, written by students. (cwrl.utexas.edu)

 

 

 

FOR THE DEATH PENALTY

 

 

 

AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY

 


 

FOR ALTERNATIVES

 


 

 

ARTICLES / DOCUMENTS

 

 

 

 

ADS

     

  • "We, on Death Row"(Benetton) "will sympathetically portray American murderers awaiting execution, conveying what's on their doomed minds."(Hank Stuever, The Washington Post, January 25, 2000).
    (Press release :" In the year 2000, Benetton is launching its worldwide communication campaign about capital punishment")
    "Looking at ads in the face" )

 

  • The United Colours of Benetton Presents: WE, ON DEATH ROW - Spring 2000 Men's Deathrow Catalog (with a letter to their readers) - (bunkmag.com)

 

 

 

 




 

CARTOONS

 

 

 

ART

 


 

TAPES


  • Execution tapes - Inmates' Last Words - You can listen to them (soundportraits.org) - Lien modifié