“Recording a group discussion” – on the Death Penalty

In this exercise, you and the others in your group must discuss some discussion points and record yourself
doing it.

Follow these steps carefully…

Step 1 - Watch one of the instruction videos uploaded by your teacher on how to record a
group video meeting.

Step 2 – Watch this TED-talk individually (part of your warm-up for the discussion)
https://www.ted.com/talks/lindy_lou_isonhood_a_juror_s_reflections_on_the_death_penal
ty#t-13533

Step 3 – Hold a video meeting (Use Teams or ZOOM) in your group and record your meeting.
(One of you will be in charge of the recording)

Step 4 – In this meeting you must discuss and talk about the questions below. You decide the
order in which you discuss the questions. Do them from 1-19 or 19-1. Up to you.

Step 5 – Upload your recording to your group’s folder in Teams.

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1. Do you agree with capital punishment / execution?

2. What do you think the "capital" means in "capital punishment"?
3. What is the history of capital punishment in your country? – Does it happen?
4. What does the government do about people wrongly executed?
5. Is the death penalty a deterrent to violent crime?
6. What different methods are there of applying the death penalty?
7. What do you think of the argument “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth”?
8. Do you think victims’ families get a sense of closure knowing a killer has been executed?
9. Should the death penalty be applied to mentally disabled people?
10. What do you think the executioner feels?
11. Do you think capital punishment / execution is murder?
12. Why do many Christian countries have the death penalty when the Bible says, “Thou shalt not kill”?
13. What do you think is the most humane way to put someone to death?
14. Do you think the victim’s family should be able to choose the method of execution?
15. If execution is unacceptable, what is the alternative?
16. Should the general public be allowed to look at executions?
17. In Britain, you can receive the death penalty for killing the Queen but not your neighbor. What do
you think?
18. Do you think the death penalty can be applied to thieves?
19. Which is worse, life imprisonment or the death penalty?