Physical Punishment

Question 1

What is the capital punishment?

Answer 1

execution by hanging
not only for murder but also for less serious crimes

Question 2

What is the corporal punishment?

Answer 2

Flogging, birching, branding with hot irons and putting them in the stocks

Question 3

What were the changes to the law?

Answer 3

Britain abolished capital punishment in 1965. All corporal punishments of offenders was abolished in 1967

Question 4

Why did the law change?

Answer 4

Capital punishment is now regarded as a breach of the most basic human right
The death penalty doesn’t act as a deterrent
What if the person was innocent? Miscarriage of justice
Physical punishment to control behaviour has been replaced by self- control