Presentation about death penalty and life imprisonment by Dario and Noelia (2 Bach C)

1. Death Penalty and Life
Imprisonment

2. ● Vocabulary
Life sentence = Life imprisonment: Cadena perpetua
Reviewable life sentence: Cadena perpetua revisable
Death penalty = Capital punishment: Pena de muerte
Prisoner: Preso
Imprisonment: Prisión, Encarcelamiento
Penal code: Código penal Treason: Traición
Witness: Testigo Spying: Espionaje
Commit a crime: Cometer un crimen People trafficking: Trafico de personas
Burglary: Robo (en una casa)
Murder/ murderer: Asesinato/ asesino
Increase ≠ Decrease: Subir ≠ Bajar
Punish/ punishment: Castigar/ castigo

3. Death penalty deals with punishment for crimes established in the
legislation.
.
Death penalty has been used
by some societies to punish
crime. At the moment death
penalty has been abolished
in almost all countries. At
the moment death penalty is
applied in 78 countries.
Blue: Abolished for all crimes
Red: Legal form of punishment for certain offenses
Green: Abolished for crimes not committed in exceptional
circumstances
Orange: Legal form of punishment but not used in the last
10 years

4. Death penalty exist in poor countries
and rich countries, although luckily
over the years the numbers of
executions have decreased
In 2003, China executed 726, Iran 108, and
USA 65. The death penalty tries to reduce the
quantity of crimes committed, but the life
imprisonment can do this too. In addition the
death penalty is more expensive than keeping to
the criminal in prison.

5. For example, in California the death penalty
cost 114 millions of dollar more than keeping
the person in prison. Furthermore a study
reveals that since 1990, the United States
would have saved 2,000 millions of dollars if the
death penalty had been changed to life
imprisonment.
In many countries death penalty
is used as punishment for crimes
of murder, spying, treason, people
trafficking and corruption in
politics.

6. There are people that knowing that mistake
can exist in the sentence, many because
the police modify evidence, by false
confession, mistakes of witness and junk
science, continue to defend the death
penalty.
Some people think death penalty reduces
crime, prevents its repetition and is a way
of punishment for murder. Other people
think that it doesn't reduce crime in bigger
measure that the life imprisonment.

7. In my opinion, life imprisonment is better whenever it is revisable. There
are cases of minors convicted to life imprisonment for not insignificant
things, but much less serious than others.
For example, in United States
there was a not normal case. A
young person aged fifteen was
condemned to life
imprisonment for having
accompanied two friends of his
big brother to commit a
burglary, which finished as a
double murder. This young
person was only waiting
together the car that they had
stolen earlier, and was accused
of double murder too.

8. Minors can’t buy alcohol or cigarettes, they can’t vote or play to the
lottery, but the justice can treat them like adults in these cases.
Fortunately the Supreme Court has declared unconstitutional the life
imprisonment of people who had committed the crimes under 18. This
may affect about 2,500 prisoners.

9. On 15 September this year in Spain
the draft bill was presented reform the
penal code that includes for first time in
the history of democracy reviewable
permanent imprisonment. This
punishment will be able to impose on
terrorists, and murderers.
The death penalty is not a solution to
deal with crime, in addition it is
incorrigible when it is done. Reviewable
life sentence instead gives the
possibility to rectify if the prisoner is
innocent in the end.

10. I don't agree with the death
penalty because it is never a
solution to kill somebody although
this person is a murderer because
somebody could charge other
people without justificacion or
some people could not have
enough money for a lawyer.
Another argument because of which I
disagree with the death penalty is that if
we kill people and they are innocent the
real murderer will continue killing. For
all that, I disagree with the death
penalty.
The end