{"id":9052,"date":"2018-09-21T07:45:59","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T05:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/?p=9052"},"modified":"2021-10-11T09:26:22","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T07:26:22","slug":"is-the-death-penalty-ever-moral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/2018\/09\/is-the-death-penalty-ever-moral\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the Death Penalty Ever Moral?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>C1 &#8211; Advanced<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Capital punishment or\u00a0death penalty is a practice whereby a person is killed by the state as a punishment for a crime.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters of the death penalty say it is an important tool for sustaining law and order, inhibits crime, and costs less than life imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>Detractors of capital punishment say it is not a disincentive to committing crime. They say life sentence is a more severe and less expensive punishment than death.<\/p>\n<p>Are there circumstances under which a murderer deserves the death penalty? In other words, should capital punishment be abolished or not?<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Is the Death Penalty Ever Moral? | 5 Minute Video\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8dnVZibrV6g?wmode=transparent&amp;rel=0&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Do you agree with capital punishment?<\/li>\n<li>Which is worse, life imprisonment or the death penalty?<\/li>\n<li>Do you think the victim\u2019s family should be able to choose the method of execution?<\/li>\n<li>Is the death penalty a deterrent to violent crime?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C1 &#8211; Advanced Capital punishment or\u00a0death penalty is a practice whereby a person is killed by the state as a punishment for a crime. 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