The Pros & Cons

Putting a condemned person to death

Eighteenth Century B.C. (1700 BC) Code of Hammaurabi, Babylon codified the death

penalty for 25 different crimes Fifth Century B.C. (400 BC)

Twelve Tablets, Roman Republic Methods: crucifixion, drowning, beating to death,

burning alive, and impalement Middle Ages (500-1500 AD)

Methods (Trials by ordeal): boiling, burning at the stake, hanging, beheading, and drawing and quartering

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (1600-1700s AD) Crimes punishable by death penalty in Europe:

stealing, cutting down a tree, and robbing a rabbit warren

HangingFiring Squad ElectrocutionGas ChamberLethal

Injection

Link to state comparison maps http://www.classbrain.com/artteach/publish/

article_109.shtml

Choose “Interactive Maps” under State-by-State Data

Choose “Methods of Execution” Have students

Choose two states as well as Georgia Write down all the methods available in

each state Discuss

Put students into four groups Assign each group one of the following

arguments: Deterrence Retribution Innocence Arbitrariness & Discrimination

Individually, students will read about their argument and take notes

As a group, students will make a poster showing the pros/cons of their argument