Attitudes to the treatment of criminals

Cards (8)

  • community service: A way of punishing offenders by making them do unpaid work in the community
  • Forgiveness: Showing mercy and pardoning someone for what they have done wrong
  • Repentance: saying sorry, and a way of believers acknowledging to God that they have done wrong
  • death penalty: Capital punishment; form of punishment in which a prisoner is put to death for crimes committed
  • Sharia Law
    Islamic law
  • Quran 5:38: Cut off the hands of thieves, whether they are man or woman, as punishment for what they have done - a deterrent from God
  • Quran 24:22: .......let them forgive. Do you not wish that god should forgive you? God is most loving and merciful
  • Rabia Terri Harris: Founder of Muslim Peace Fellowship, opponent of the death penalty