UPM-CALC/SEM2/2020-21/LPE2301/SCL WORKSHEET 5

LPE2301 ACADEMIC INTERACTION AND PRESENTATION

SCL WORKSHEET 5

WEEK 7 (OUTLINING)

Name : Shahira Hani Binti Md Fadil

Matric No. : 209419
Group : 86
Due date : 9 May 2021

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. Richard C. Dieter, the Executive Director of the Death

Penalty Information Center, almost all death penalty
Supporting Point 1
cases cannot afford their own lawyer – state has to
provide them.

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

incarceration and appeal costs
Supporting Details
 2. For example, between 1982 and 1997, counties
(i.e. statistics, examples,
spent a 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 great
(i.e. statistics, examples,
lawyer and both got off with their crime
explanation)
 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 stated - saw Davis

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

6. The justice system was and still very capable of

Supporting Point 2
making mistakes.

 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. Most murders commit suicide after comminting their

Supporting Point 1
crime - death penalty be an an incentive to kill

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Supporting Details  Death penalty is an incentive to kill

(i.e. statistics, examples,  8. Statistic show in a current issues article - from the
explanation) years 1990-2009 states with the death penalty have
higher murder rates than states without the death
penalty. (Capital Punishment).

Supporting Point 2 9. The question of our rights

Supporting Details  A pattern of racial bias in sentencing

(i.e. statistics, examples,  10. Sends the wrong message - going to kill
explanation) someone for killing.

Submission:
Submit the completed exercise in PDF format.

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