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2. Read the text again to answer the following questions:

1. What is considered to be the ultimate penalty?

2. How is capital punishment carried out in different countries?

3. Is capital punishment used in many countries of the world?

4. What do supporters of capital punishment think about death as a punishment?

5. How do opponents of the capital punishment describe this process?

6. What has the research shown about the capital punishment?

7. In what countries have children under 18 been legally put to death?

8. What is the main aim of the capital punishment?

3. Translate the following words and word combinations from English into Russian:

just punishment, hanging, electrocution, lethal injection, beheading, to abolish, exceptional crimes, wartime offence, execution, to pass a death sentence, to cease, serious crimes, to deter, cruel, uncivilized, anguish, to argue, evidence, imprisonment, to rectify, innocent, inconsistently, to involve, to suppose, to frighten, to steal, revenge, ultimate penalty, retribution, to carry out, shooting.

4. Find the English equivalents to the following words and phrases:

месть, обезглавливание, смертная казнь через повешение, отменить смертную казнь, казнь на электрическом стуле, лишение свободы, приводить приговор в исполнение, удерживать от совершения кражи, возмездие за убийство, из мести, вынести смертный приговор, отмена смертельных инъекций, оправдать невиновного, сохранить смертную казнь, особо тяжкие преступ­ления, перевоспитывать преступников, исправлять.

5. Match the words from the left column with their definitions from the right column.

1.execution

a. the act of officially ending or stopping something; the act of abolishing something

2.to deter

b. not polite, reasonable, or respectful

3.abolition

c. extreme suffering, grief, or pain

4.anguish

d. not always acting or behaving in the same way

5. to rectify

e. to inflict injury in return for

6. to revenge

f. to correct (something that is wrong)

7.inconsistent

g. to prevent (something) from happening

8.uncivilized

h. the act of killing someone especially as punishment for a crime

6. Fill in the gaps using the necessary words from exercise 5.

1. Some potential buyers will be … by the price.

2. They called for the … of death penalty.

3. They believe that capital punishment is … .

4. He experienced the … of divorce after 10 years of marriage.

5. The hotel management promised to … the problem.

6. Their descriptions of the accident were … .

7. He was man who took matters into his own hands and … of his brother’s death.

8. He is in prison awaiting … .

7. Choose the correct word to make the sentence complete.

1. The ultimate penalty is capital punishment/ prison.

2. How would you punish / punishment somebody for stealing?

3. They support the idea of capital punishment abolish/ abolition in the country.

4. I don't believe that the death penalty deters from commit / committing violent crimes.

5. The criminal was sentenced to one year's imprisonment / imprison.

6. Some countries don't carry out executions / execute.

7. Supporters of capital punishment believe that death is a just punishment for certain serious / minor crimes.

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