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2. The Bible prescribed death as the penalty for more than 30 different crimes, ranging from

murder to fornication.

3. The abolition of capital punishment in England in November 1965 was welcomed by most

people.

4. In late American colonies the death penalty was commonly authorized for a wide variety of

crimes.

II. To which part of the text belongs the following sentences:

1.The chief objection to capital punishment has been that it is always used unfairly, in at least

three major ways.

2.The earliest historical records contain evidence of capital punishment.

3.Adjacent states, in which one has a death penalty and the other does not, show no significant

differences in the murder rate.

4.Efforts to abolish the death penalty did not gather momentum until the end of the 18^th century.

III. Choose the right answer to the following question:

Can death penalty lower the murder rate?

1. yes

2. no

3. can't say exactly

4. sometimes

IV. Define the main idea of the text:

1.States that abolish and then reintroduce the death penalty j do not seem to show any significant change in the murder rate.

2.Efforts to abolish the death penalty did not gather momentum until the end of the 18^th century.

3.The current prevailing view among criminologists is that no conclusive evidence exists to

show that the death penalty is a more effective deterrent to violent crime than long-term

imprisonment.

4.Opponents have replied that the death penalty can be the result of a mistake in practice.