Active Citizenship

Question 1

What is our project called?

Answer 1

“Should the death penalty be brought back to the UK?”

Question 2

What are some of the primary researches we completed?

Answer 2

Questionnaires
Online Petition
Letter to MP

Question 3

How many male and female answered the questionnaires (30)

Answer 3

14 male and 16 female

Question 4

What type of questions did we use on the questionnaire

Answer 4

11 questions including 4 long answer questions and 7 short answer questions

Question 5

After analysing one of the questions from the questionnaires, what statistic did we find?

Answer 5

We analysis “Does the death penalty show us that we are a powerful country?”
Out of the 14 men, 14% said yes whereas 86% said no. Out of the 16 female, 38%said yes whereas 62% said no. So over all both genders agreed with no.

Question 6

After analysing one of the questions from the questionnaires, what statistic did we find?

Answer 6

We analysis “Do you think the death penalty is an effective way to punish criminals?”
We analysis this through age group. So in 0-10 100% said no (out of 3)/ 11-15 50% said yes (3) 50% said no (3)/ 16-25 40% said yes (2) 60% said no (3)/ 26-50 17% said yes (1) 83% said no (5)/ 51-70 34% said yes (2) 66% said no (4)/ 71-85 67% said yes (2) 33% said no (1)

Question 7

What are the top 8 countries that still use thee death penalty?

Answer 7

Chine
Iran
Saudi Arabia
Iraq
Pakistan
Egypt
Somalia
America (31 states)

Question 8

What were some of the results from 8 countries in 2017 that still use the death penalty?

Answer 8

China don’t revel there figures but it was estimated that there were 1000 executions
Iran executed 507
Saudi Arabia executed 146
Iraq executed 125

Question 9

We also analysis the results from Americas execution through ethnicity and gender. What is the highest number of execution through ethnicity and gender?

Answer 9

White men (62)
(only a few female were executed through all ethnicity)

Question 10

What was UKIP’s opinion on whether the death penalty should be brought back or not?

Answer 10

they have both for and against argument for the death penalty.

Question 11

What are some points against bringing back the death penalty?

Answer 11

discriminatory

Question 12

What are some of the points for bringing back the death penalty?

Answer 12

Closure and vindication

Question 13

What is our local MP?

Answer 13

John Redwood- Wokingham

Question 14

What was John Redwood’s response to our letter?

Answer 14

He liked our primary research and thought we did it to detail but he didn’t agree to bring back the death penalty as he thought of some concerns towards the death penalty.