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Recently, I have seen a film made for TV, “L’abolition”. This film relates the route of the lawyer Robert Badinter toward death penalty’s abolition in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">France</st1:place></st1:country-region>. It shocks me a lot and that’s why I chose to write an article about it.<o:p></o:p>

First I have to remind death penalty’s history.  In <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">France</st1:place></st1:country-region>, the law decreeing the abolition had promulgated 9^th October 1981. It had suggested by Robert Badinter, the “garde des Sceaux” under Mitterrand’s precidency. Persons who were sentenced to death were guillotined. Voltaire, Hugo, Jaurès, Fallières, Camus, Badinter, Mitterrand, Brassens were opposed the death penalty.                                                      In <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Great Britain</st1:place></st1:country-region>, the last execution took place in 1964 and abolition’s law was promulgated in 1969. Since 2001 criminal can’t be executed for another reasons.        In <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>, supreme yard had prevented the death penalty during 10 years, from 1967 to <st1:metricconverter productid="1977. In" w:st="on">1977. In</st1:metricconverter> 2008, 14 states are abolitionists : Alaska, North Dakota, Hawaii, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Rhode Island ( except for a life imprisonment), Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin, Columbia District, New Jersey (December of 2007), Massachusetts and State of New York (2004). Persons sentenced to death have a big appeal’s possibility that’s why their wait’s length on death row is long. Methods used are electric chair, gas chamber, but above all legal injection. Georges W Bush, Barack Obama, Bill and Hilary Clinton, John McCain, Rick Perry, Ann Richards, Michael B Mukasey etc… support the death penalty, although there are abolitionists too, like Georges Ryan, Ralph Nader, John Kerry or Clarence Darrow.<o:p></o:p>

            In a majority of countries in the world, there is or there was a discussion opposing supporters the capital punishment and opponents.                                          Persons support it because they think it must avenge victims and to kill their murderer will bring justice’s feeling to help their family to do their mourning. They think also that a killer must suffer the punishment he had done. Death penalty is, for some, a way to prevent the second offence and to prevent to overload jails which are expensive for states, to deter from kill, rape and to fight crime.                                              Abolitionists ideas are: the capital punishment is immoral, society become criminal itself if it kills. Furthermore, life imprisonment is an heavy castigation, pools had proved death penalty not decrease criminality in relation to countries where it had been abolished. There are too the possibility of a miscarriage of justice and so perhaps to execute wrongly a convict, or still an unfair trial, for example in the case of racial discrimination, fake evidences or confessions given by violence.<o:p></o:p>

            I am agreeing with those last arguments. I think we are not the right to remove the life of a person even she is a criminal. Furthermore we take the risk to assassinate an innocent. For me, execute a convict is commit a murder, a crime, like the convict had done before. Convict sentenced to death’s family will become a victim family and will suffer as much as murderer victim’s family. Societies, instead of kill those convicts, should treat sick criminal (psychological disease) and prevent crime, by helping persons who have problems… I think some criminal, not all of course, a first-time offender and so they have the right to be given a second chance, others deserve a punishment but the life imprisonment is sufficient.

The key (for map)

Death Penalty World Map

Blue: Abolished for all crimes

Green: Abolished for crimes not committed in exceptional circumstances (such as crimes committed in time of war) Orange: Abolished in practice

Red: Legal form of punishment for certain offenses <o:p></o:p>

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I'm sorry : for the students in  who are interested in working with students from other countries : the password isn't etwinning but "1etwinning". i'm sorry please tell everybody you can see and it'll be great if you start working on it before march. have fun during your holidays

Like John Lennon, Bob Marley talk about jesus in his song.

PEACE AND LOVE is his message. In this very famous song Bob says that you must stand up for your rights. He want you to understand that you have all the control and you can do what you want to do, just shearch the peace and the happiness in our world.

 Lyrics:
"Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights!

Preacher man, don't tell me
Heaven is under the earth
I know you don't know
What life is really worth
It's not all that glitters is gold
Half the story has never been told
So now you see the light , eh!
You stand up for your rights, come on!

Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up, don't give up the fight!
Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up, don't give up the fight!

Most people think
Great God will come from the sky
Take away everything
And make everybody feel high
But if you know what life is worth
You will look for yours on earth
And now you see the light
You stand up for your rights, yeah!

We're sick an' tired of your ism-skism game
Dyin' and goin' to heaven in a Jesus' name, Lord
We know when we understand
Almighty God is a living man
You can fool some people sometimes
But you can't fool all the people all the time
So now we see the light (What you gonna do?)
We gonna stand up for our rights! (Yeah, yeah, yeah!)

So you better
Get up, stand up! (In the morning! Get it up!)
Stand up for your rights! (Stand up for our rights!)
Get up, stand up!
Don't give up the fight! (Don't give it up, don't give it up!)
Get up, stand up! (Get up, stand up!)
Stand up for your rights! (Get up, stand up!)
Get up, stand up!
Don't give up the fight! (Get up, stand up!)
Get up, stand up!
Stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up!
Don't give up the fight!" Bob Marley.

Many people take Bob Marley as a preacher and a god. We can see in some "blog" the love of the people for him.

http://npiquet.club.fr/Vos_paroles___.html

http://www.kernowyouth.co.uk/youthgroups/bobmarley/

E. R

( i just went to see the article of Lucien... We can say that Bob Marley has really got a strong message ! So There is another video from Bob :] )

Muse is an English rock band created in 1992 in Devonshire. They play some alternative rock, progressive rock.

It is composed by : - Mathew Bellamy who plays the guitar the piano and who is the main singer

                                   -Christopher Wolstenholme who plays the bass ,makes the backing vocals and the synthetiser or the guitar on some songs    

                                   -Dominic Howard who plays the drums

After their formation they started concert in their town and won a band battle smashing their instruments. At the time they were harder than now playing metal

After this event they decided forego their university and quit their jobs to move from their native town

They played their first concerts in London or Manchester then they recorded a Demo

After doing some little shows they recorded their first album called "Showbiz". The release of this album was followed by tour support slots for Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Foo Fighters in the United States(they played before the show). In 1999-2000 they were in the main festivals.

In 2001 they recorded an album caled "Origin of Symetry" who increased more and more their famous. They year after they released a live album and an other with some B-Sides

In 2005 they released "Absolution" who consecrated them with some well-known songs like "Hysteria" or "Stockholm Syndrome"

After a long world tour who was recorded in a DVD they released the most famous of their album "Black Holes and Revelations" with the song that everybody knows "Starlight"

They started a world tour and filled the biggest stadiums of the world like Wembley,England where they recorded a live album.

Now they are recordinb the new album who will be certainly finished before the end of the 2009 year.

I'll add those videos who are extracted from their whole records.

HAPPY New Year "kids"