DEATH PENALTY

GROUP 1: Presentation
What is death penalty?

 Capital punishment, also known as death penalty and formly called judicial homicide
is the state- sanctioned practice of killing a person as a punishment for a crime.
 Crime that are punished by death are vary depending on the jurisdiction, but
commonly include serious crime against a person such as assassination, murder,
aggravated rape, and drug dealing.
 But according to Amnesty International, death penalty is the ultimate cruel, inhuman
and degrading punishment.
 Methods of Death Penalty

Beheading Electrocution Hanging

Lethal
Injection Shooting
 Methods of Death Penalty
BEHEADING
The act of severing the head from
the body in order to carry out the death penalty
is known as beheading. Traitors were typically
executed by being executed, generally with an
ax. Removing the head from a living body is
known as decapitation or beheading, and it
always results in death. The act of purposeful
decapitation, as in murder or execution, is
commonly referred to as chopping.
ELECTROCUTION
The technique of electrocution
involves applying a strong electric current to
the condemned person while they are seated,
strapped to a chair. The procedure involves
applying one or more high voltage electrical
currents through electrodes affixed to the
condemned person's head and legs. An
electrocution usually lasts for two minutes.
 Methods of Death Penalty
HANGING
Capital punishment, hanging, or
killing someone by breaking or strangling their
neck with a noose in midair. Until they have
asphyxiated to death, victims are traditionally
executed by hanging from a crossbeam or
gallows. An alternative technique of hanging
involves the victim standing on a trapdoor,
which is then opened. The victim falls many
feet until they are stopped by a rope that is
fastened around their neck.
LETHAL INJECTION
Lethal injection is the principal
method of execution used by all states and the
federal government. Different regimens, usually
involving one, two, or three medicines, are used
by different jurisdictions. Typically, three-drug
protocols involve administering an anesthetic or
sedative, paralyzing the prisoner with a
medicine, and stopping the heart with a second
drug. In the one- and two-drug procedures,
death is usually caused by an anesthetic or
sedative overdose.
 Methods of Death Penalty

SHOOTING

Entails wearing a black hood over the prisoner's head and binding them
to a chair or pole, depending on whether they are seated or standing. The gunmen—
usually no less than five—aim for the prisoner's heart from a distance of up to 20 feet.
 Advantages of Death Penalty

 A means of retribution: The retribution principle postulates that guilty offenders should receive
proportionate punishment. Therefore, those who commit murder ought to be punished by death.

 Prevents re-offending: Capital punishment ensures that the offender will never commit a crime
again.

 Prevents prison overcrowding: Those in favor of capital punishment argue that it would help
curb overcrowding in prisons.
 Disadvantages of Death Penalty

 The risk of executing innocent people exists in any justice system.

 The death penalty is incompatible with human rights and human dignity.

 Public opinion is not a major stumbling block for abolition

 Status of Death Penalty in the
Philippines
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7659
"An act to impose the death penalty on certain heinous crimes amending for the purpose the revised
penal laws as amended other special penal laws and for other purposes"
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 8177
"An act designating death by lethal injection as method of carrying out capital punishment, amending
for the purpose article 81 of the revised penal code, as amended by section 24 of republic act number
7659"
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9643
"An act prohibiting the imposition of death penalty in the Philippines."
 Ethical Solution

 Life imprisonment
 Restorative justice
 Improving the fairness of legal processes and addressing the root causes/Reform and
Rehabilitation
 AVOIDING UNETHICAL DOING IS ALREADY AN ETHICAL SOLUTION. Therefore, preventing
Death Penalty by not implementing it is one of its ethical solution
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