The Pros & Cons
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Putting a condemned person to death
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Eighteenth Century B.C. (1700 BC)
 Code of Hammaurabi, Babylon codified the death penalty
for 25 different crimes
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Fifth Century B.C. (400 BC)
 Twelve Tablets, Roman Republic
 Methods: crucifixion, drowning, beating to death, burning
alive, and impalement
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Middle Ages (500-1500 AD)
 Methods (Trials by ordeal): boiling, burning at the stake,
hanging, beheading, and drawing and quartering
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Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (1600-1700s
AD)
 Crimes punishable by death penalty in Europe: stealing,
cutting down a tree, and robbing a rabbit warren
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Hanging
Firing Squad
Electrocution
Gas Chamber
Lethal Injection
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Link to state comparison maps
 http://www.classbrain.com/artteach/publish/article_1
09.shtml
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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
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Discuss
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Put students into four groups
Assign each group one of the following
arguments:
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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