Capital punishment死刑概要1.pptVIP

Capital punishment， the only way to deter criminals？ On May 7th,177 students from Fudan University signed a petition pleading for leniency for Lin Senhao,the poisoner, who received the death sentence in February. This petition arouses a heat debate about the capital punishment. Servey:Are you in favour of these students or not? Why? Total: For: Against: ____:____ The interesting point is that, most people who are arguing about this petition actually have not read it from cover to cover. (I found it only on a webpage of Oriental Morning Post, and it was even not text version,but in the form of photos.) Debate on the retention or abolition of the death penalty Human Rights and Hunmanism 1.Human cannot play God. 2.We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. (The Declaration of Independence,constitusion of USA) 2.5 the right to life, natural right 3.The capital punishment is cruel and savage. It is not civilized, and lead the people away from civilization to cruelty. It has somehow become a social violence. the judicial process and Justice If you view execution as a life for a life, then what about a serial-killer case? What about the victims are bad guys?Crime of passion?What about ... It is very complicated in practicing this punishment. Therefore the death penalty cannot be simply seen as a revenge. Nor can it comfort the soul of victim. It is irreversabble as long as the execution is over. Justice is the constant and perpetual will to render to every man his due.——Ulpian，a Roman jurist of Tyrian ancestry.正义就是使每个人获得其应得的东西的永恒不变的意志 Then Justice need to react to the peoples willing to kill the murder, even the truth is not told. deterrence That capital punishment can serve as the final deterrence is the most basic reason many countries keep it. However, according to s