UPM-CALC/SEM2/2019-20/LPE2301/SCL WORKSHEET 5

LPE2301 ACADEMIC INTERACTION AND PRESENTATION

SCL WORKSHEET 5

WEEK 7 (OUTLINING)

Name : Thilagan A/L Goby Krishnan

Matric No. : 201735
Group : 10
Due date : 29 March 2020

a) Watch the video on this link.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUeTDKsfGc8&t=22s

b) Based on the video, complete the table below. Your answers may be written in point
forms.

Topic Death penalty should be abolished.

Reasons for abolishment of death penalty:

1. Expensive,
Central Idea
2. Run the risk of killing the innocent and
3. Ineffective and against human rights

Main point 1 Expensive

1. All the death penalty cases cannot afford their own

Supporting Point 1
lawyer. – state has to provide them.

 Legal costs, pre-trial costs, jury selection, trial,

incarceration and appeal costs 
Supporting Details
 2. Between 1982 and 1997, countries spent a
(i.e. statistics, examples,
shocking 1.6 billion on capital crime trials. (Katherine
explanation)
Baicker, The Budgetary Repercussions of Capital
Convictions)

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Supporting Point 2 Murderers who can afford attorneys can get away from
their crime.

Supporting Details  3. For example, Casey Anthony and O.J. Simpson,

(i.e. statistics, examples, both had great lawyers and both got off with their
explanation) crime.
 Unfair to the poor and minorities

Main point 2 4. The risk of killing the innocent.

Supporting Point 1 Troy Davis case - put to death while still fighting to prove
his innocence

 5. Seven of the nine witnesses that stated they saw

Supporting Details Davis killed a police officer in 1991 recanted their
(i.e. statistics, examples, original testimony.
explanation)  Supreme Court denied appeal, Davis was put to
death on September 21, 2011.

Supporting Point 2 6. Death Penalty Information Centre.

 138 people in 26 states exonerated from death row

Supporting Details since 1973 with proof of innocence (Death Penalty
(i.e. statistics, examples, Information)
explanation)  Multiple cases where new evidence has emerged
after the defendant has already been executed

Main point 3 Ineffective and against human rights

7. The death penalty makes a person think twice before

Supporting Point 1
killing.

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Supporting Details  Death penalty is an incentive to kill

(i.e. statistics, examples,  8. From year 1990 – 2009, states with the death
explanation) penalty have higher murder rates than the states
without the death penalty. (Capital Punishment).

9. Government don’t have the rights of taking

Supporting Point 2
someone’s life.

Supporting Details  A pattern of racial bias in sentencing

(i.e. statistics, examples,  10. It doesn’t make sense and it contradicts the
explanation) whole idea of giving justice to the family of victim.

Submission:
Submit the completed exercise in PDF format.

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