Read the documents and do the following activities, Fill in the missing words.

1)The first criminal was executed for ...................., he was a ........................

2) In .......................... support for capital punishment was at just 66%.

3) The electric chair was invented by .........................................

4) Defendants with ................. victims are executed more than  defendants

with.................... ones.

5) The peak of executions was in .................. with ..................... deaths.

6) The Rosenbergs were convicted of .........................

Vocabulary

occur - se produire, avoir lieu

a theft - un vol

following - suivant

repeal - abrogation

poll -sondage, vote

nationwide - à travers le pays

short-lived - de courte durée

the peak - le pic

increase - augmenter

decrease - diminuer

a poll - un sondage

almost - presque

following - suivant

reach - atteindre

support - soutenir, soutien

convict - trouver coupable

 

7) In ........................... public opinion was just .................. in favour of

the death penalty.

8)After ten years, ........................ was executed in ............................

9) Capital punishment was first banned in .................... in ................................

10) 98 people were executed in ...............................

11) From 1907 to 1917, the death penalty was ended in ..................... states.

Look at the diagrams and answer the following questions with a sentence

1) What decade saw the maximum number of executions ?

2) What decade saw the minimum number of executions ?

3) What is the actual tendency ?

4) What would a majority of Americans now prefer ?

5) Do police chiefs support the death penalty ?

6) What would police chiefs like to see ?

7) What is the tendency as regards public support for the death penalty ?

What is your opinion of the death penalty ? (25 words)