STUDENT A's QUESTIONS (Do not show these to Student B.)
| (1) | What is the difference between capital punishment and corporal punishment? |
| (2) | Do you agree with capital punishment? |
| (3) | What is the history of capital punishment in your country? |
| (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? |
STUDENT B's QUESTIONS (Do not show these to Student A.)
| (1) | Do you think capital punishment is murder? |
| (2) | Which is worse, life imprisonment or the death penalty? |
| (3) | Why do many Christian countries have the death penalty when the Bible says, “Thou shalt not kill”? |
| (4) | What do you think is the most humane way to put someone to death? |
| (5) | Do you think the victim’s family should be able to choose the method of execution? |
| (6) | If execution is unacceptable, what is the alternative? |
| (7) | What does the "capital" mean in "capital punishment"? |
| (8) | Should the general public be allowed to look at executions? |
| (9) | In Britain, you can receive the death penalty for killing the Queen but not your neighbor. What do you think? |
| (10) | Do you think the death penalty can be applied to thieves? |
