George Orwell

Question 1
The technique he used is to describe the whole situation very clearly the expressions and the tension in the atmosphere to emphasize on what he wants to point out that there is no point in meting out capital punishment. He also described the man as any other human being and has all his organs function why must he be sentenced to a capital punishment of death, causing the reader to sympathize the prisoner and may thus have a feeling that capital punishment should be condemned. He also ended the passage by having a situation where the people who did the hanging were not affected by it; in fact it is like an everyday thing to them, too common. Even when the dead person is hundred yards away the wardens were still drinking away, they were not afraid. The ending compared to the starting of the passage had a totally two different atmospheres and feeling very contrasting.

Question 2
For capital punishment:
-Capital punishment serves as a warning to make people think twice before they are going to commit a crime. Once they think twice that perhaps it is not worth committing this crime which will result in capital punishment being meted out they will not commit the crime. This results in the lesser number of serious crimes.

- Capital punishment serves as something to instil fear in people’s heart and cause them not to think about committing a heinous crime like trafficking drugs, committing murder, kidnapping people etc.

- Capital punishment ensures that the people who commit heinous crimes will receive the capital punishment that they deserve which is also a form of retribution. For example if you kill someone you will receive death penalty. It is something like paying off the blood debt with your life for a life that you took. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.

“We are concerned here only with the imposition of capital punishment for the
crime of murder, and when a life has been taken deliberately by the offender, we
cannot say that the punishment is invariably disproportionate to the crime. It
is an extreme sanction suitable to the most extreme of crimes.”--Potter Stewart

-Capital punishments shows the amount of effort that the country is putting in to reduce the crime rates for serious offences with capital punishments for many serious offences deter people from committing them.

-Capital punishments ensure that the appropriate amount of justice is given to the family of the people who are victims of the serious crime. This makes the people of the country still believe that the country will do things to protect its citizens or people from harm. This is something like a consolation to the victim’s family that the offender has received his deserved retribution or sentence and the country is still a rather safe place to stay in and thus still have confidence and faith in the country’s security.

-Capital punishments makes people respect the country’ law to a certain extent if people commit very serious crime and mediocre crime but they still received punishment of not much a varying degree, they may not respect the law and decide to flout it.

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“Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human
life.”--Orrin Hatch quotes

Against capital punishments:
-Capital punishments deprive people the basic human right of living. Everyone born to earth is equal and has the same rights. Who will be the one to judge that you should die or be sentenced to capital punishment? You are not god; you have no right to control over other peoples life and death.

-Capital punishment destroys the healthy living creature that is alive and kicking. Here you are destroying lives and on the other hand, in the hospitals people are desperately trying to save precious life. People want healthy organs but here you are destroying healthy organs when you kill a healthy person.

-Capital punishments deprive offenders the chance to regret and repay for what crimes they have committed and turning over a new leaf.

“Apologizes are pointless, regrets come too late. What matters is you can move,
on you can grow.”-- Kelsey Grammer quotes

What matters is you move on and grow from your mistake, but the capital punishment (death penalty) does not allow people to regret, move on and grow up. One grave mistake and you are dead. Crime could also be done at the moment of folly and that may be because he was so overwhelmed by anger that he lost his common sense. Why not give the person a chance to repay the crimes that they have committed? It is not fair.

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“As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent
people won't be put to death.” --Paul Simon quotes

As quoted, capital punishment may result in innocent people death. Just like what Fiona said that once a person is found guilty, innocence is irrelevant. One cannot easily or have enough time to search for new clues or evidence to prove one’s innocence.


Question 3:

“I personally have always voted for the death penalty because I believe that
people who go out prepared to take the lives of other people forfeit their own
right to live. I believe that that death penalty should be used only very
rarely, but I believe that no-one should go out certain that no matter how
cruel, how vicious, how hideous their murder, they themselves will not suffer
the death penalty.”--Margaret Thatcher

In conclusion, I think that capital punishment should be meted out but to a small extent and for the more serious cases as only when a country is governed by law would then there be lesser crime rates. I agree with Ms Thatcher that if one is prepared to take other people’s life they must be prepared to forfeit their own life. Perhaps if one is going to be sentenced to death if he wants to repay people or want to show remorse or want to show regret, he may donate all his organs away for other people who need the organ to use. Lastly capital punishment should only be used as the last form of punishment available, as much as possible don’t use it and when you use it use it with extra caution that the person is definitely guilty and not prosecute the innocent.