1. The Pros & Cons

2.  Putting a condemned person to death

3.  Eighteenth Century B.C. (1700 BC)  Code of Hammaurabi, Babylon codified the death penalty for 25 different crimes  Fifth Century B.C. (400 BC)  Twelve Tablets, Roman Republic  Methods: crucifixion, drowning, beating to death, burning alive, and impalement  Middle Ages (500-1500 AD)  Methods (Trials by ordeal): boiling, burning at the stake, hanging, beheading, and drawing and quartering  Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (1600-1700s AD)  Crimes punishable by death penalty in Europe: stealing, cutting down a tree, and robbing a rabbit warren

4.  Hanging  Firing Squad  Electrocution  Gas Chamber  Lethal Injection

5.  Link to state comparison maps  http://www.classbrain.com/artteach/publish/article_1 09.shtml http://www.classbrain.com/artteach/publish/article_1 09.shtml  Choose “Interactive Maps” under State-by-State Data  Choose “Methods of Execution”  Have students  Choose two states as well as Georgia  Write down all the methods available in each state  Discuss

6.  Put students into four groups  Assign each group one of the following arguments:  Deterrence  Retribution  Innocence  Arbitrariness & Discrimination  Individually, students will read about their argument and take notes  As a group, students will make a poster showing the pros/cons of their argument