National 5 Writing Folio
Discursive essay
Should the death penalty be brought back in the United Kingdom
The topic I have chosen to argue about is whether the death penalty id a good thing or bad thing to bring back to Britain, Throughout the Assessment I will be mostly focusing on the question on whether the death penalty should be brought back. To start off the essay will on the history of Capital Punishment and why the death penalty was stopped in the first place, after it will show the wrongly convicted people of having the death penalty punishment and how it can effect on society. After that I will be describing the advantages and disadvantages of having the death penalty back and to conclude I will give you my opinion on my views of the death penalty.
Hanging was a tradition form of Capital Punishment in Britain but others like be-heading was a favored in the seventeenth century but stopped be-heading in 1747 after a Scot called Simon Frazer was be-headed for war crimes against Prince Charles. Capital Punishment has advanced through the years with technology and many laws have been made to soften it so less crimes which fell in to the death penalty trial such as; Hanging for forgery was abolished in 1836, no-one under the age of sixteen was put to trial or death after 1908, hanging was stopped in 1868 and the USA used the electric chair which was nether used in Britain.
The last woman to be executed was Ruth Ellis for murdering her husband David but after the when she was put to death there was a lot of controversy, People believe that Ruth shot him because of the abuse he gave her and David made her have a miscarriage. This caused people to start to shout out about the ban of the death penalty. Movies were made to show how horrible the death penalty was one was called “Yield to the night” and a really wealthy woman named Violet Van Der Elsi wrote a book of anti-death penalty called “On the Gallows”. After tones of protests and out cries, the…