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

LPE2301 ACADEMIC INTERACTION AND PRESENTATION

SCL WORKSHEET 5

WEEK 7 (OUTLINING)

Name : Hoh Jia Da

Matric No. : 200480
Group : 104
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 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, counties spent a
(i.e. statistics, examples,
shocking 1.6 billion on capital crime trials.
explanation)
(Katherine 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. Casey Anthony and O.J. Simpson, both had
(i.e. statistics, examples,
great lawyers and both got off with their crime.
explanation)
 Unfair to the poor and minorities

Main point 2 4. 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

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

6. Justice system is very capable of making

Supporting Point 2
mistakes, before the advances in technology.

 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. Murderers commit suicide after committing a

Supporting Point 1
crime.

Supporting Details  Death penalty is an incentive to kill

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

9. Death penalty going against the eighth

Supporting Point 2
amendment right of cruel and unusual punishment.

Supporting Details  A pattern of racial bias in sentencing

(i.e. statistics, examples,  10. Kill someone for killing – does not make
explanation) sense and it contradicts the whole idea.

Submission:
Submit the completed exercise in PDF format.

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