death penalty

• Death penalty


  The most extreme biologically driven policy, ending someone's life to prevent their participation in criminality and provide a deterrent
• The death penalty was abolished in the UK in 1969, but is still practiced in other parts of the world
• Methods of death penalty

  • Beheading: Saudi Arabia
  • Hanging: Afghanistan, Iran, India
• Pros of death penalty


  • Gives victims/their families a sense of justice or closure
• Cons of death penalty

  • Doesn't account for miscarriages of justice