Capital Punishment - The Death Penalty (B2)
Topic outline
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Welcome to this course on capital punishment, a controversial and widely-discussed issue.
Image: Death penalty by Nick Youngson
CC BY-SA 3.0 Pix4free, CC BY-SA 3.0,
via Wikimedia Commons- In the information section you will get an overview of
- the history of capital punishment
- arguments in favour and against the death penalty
- the death penalty in the USA
- methods of execution
- death penalty statistics
- Difficult words are explained when you move your mouse over the links. There is a printable word list at the end of the information section .
- Watch the video to get a more detailed view of the topic.
- Several exercises, tests and crosswords make sure that you review and remember what you have read and seen.
- At the end of the course there is a downloadable test that you can take (with key).