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

LPE2301 ACADEMIC INTERACTION AND PRESENTATION

SCL WORKSHEET 5

WEEK 7 (OUTLINING)

Name : NAJWA ASYSIKIN BINTI A.ZANI


Matric No. : 208113
Group : 41
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. Almost all death penalty cases cannot afford their


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

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


Supporting Details incarceration and appeal costs
(i.e. statistics, examples,  2. Counties spent a shocking 1.6 billion on capital
explanation) crime trials (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. Those who had great lawyers got off with their
(i.e. statistics, examples,
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 nine witnesses stated they saw Davis kill


Supporting Details 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. 138 people in 26 states have been exonerated from


Supporting Point 2 death row since 1973 with proof of their innocence.
(Death Penalty Information Center)

 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

Supporting Point 1 7. Make a person think twice before killing

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Supporting Details  Death penalty is an incentive to kill


(i.e. statistics, examples,  8. States with the death penalty have higher murder
explanation) rates than the states without it (Capital Punishment).

9. the death penalty against eight amendment right of


Supporting Point 2
cruel and unusual punishment

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.

Submission:
Submit the completed exercise in PDF format.

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