I'm going to give you an overview of the Death Penalty. In this purpose, I have divided my talk into two parts : First, the history of the Capital Punishment (just the main facts) and next the Death Penalty pros and cons arguments.

Please don't hold yourself back to interrupt me if you have any questions or if there are something you don't understand.
So, that concludes the introduction.

To begin with the history of the Death Penalty, I think it's important to wonder ''what is the purpose of the death penalty'' ?

It was to stop the ''Eye for an eye'' which was used in most primitive society. At that time, the arbitration system between families was no-existent.It just means people take the law into their own hands. So, then one person was killed by someone, the victim's family killed someone of the other family... , I guess it's obvious to see that in this way there was no escape to get away of the vicious circle. That phenomenon has been called ''vendetta''. In order to stop it, the death penalty was created. Because it was the justice which dispense the sentence, the cycle coud stop. Although the person offered for execution did not have to be the original perpetrator. So, I assume it was just a way to ease the victim's family.

So, now, I'm going to give you an overview of the history of the capital punishment.

First, we begin with the place of the Death Penalty in the Ancient Rome.

a) Ancient Rome

In the Ancient Rome, the use of the death penalty had three purposes.
In First to protect the society.
Next, to satisfy the sufferer.
And eventually to dissuade the potential criminals.

Somehow, we could say it's almost the same as nowadays.

As you probably know in Ancient Rome, the Capital Punishment was mainly used for the foreign people who wasn't considerated by the roman like citizen.

As for roman people, it was hardly used. They prefered to condemn them to exil or torture.

That's all I wanted to say for Ancient Rome. Now, we