Capital+Punishment

This page is for Jordan and Jessica. Bibliography stuff is on the Discussion Pages - a post for each case

=__**//our script - ideas here (DRAFT #1)//**__=

__**Scene One**: The Ted Bundy Case - to show why someone would support the death penalty__ The Setting - Props - Costumes -

Eye for an eye Confessed to killing sority girls lots of murders Defense attony & prosecutor or two reporters stating case facts and execution dates, times, places, guilty verdict, sentencing

__**Scene Two**: About The Cameron Willingham Case - to show why people are against it__ The Setting - Props - Costumes -

His last words "“Please don’t ever stop fighting to vindicate me.” Execute 2/17/2004 science now shows his trial was on junk evedince he could never have started the fire in his house, it was not arson How a bout a reporter interviewing family member sayin his last words

__**Scene Three**: Protestors - One protester For it and One Against it__ The Setting -Outside the Florida Dept. of Corrections in Starke Florida where executions take place. Props - Carrying signs Sign 1 says - "We should not play God" Person 1 says "Only the poor are on death row" Sign 2 says - " An Eye for an Eye" Person 2 says "You get what you deserve"

=**DRAFT#2 (from 10/30)**=

**__Scene One__**__: **The Ted Bundy Case - to show why someone would support the death penalty**__ The Setting – Reporting the News for January 24, 1989. Two Reporters in a TV news studio reporting on the headlines for that day.

Props - Two chairs, table, notepads, pens

Costumes – Professional clothes, 1989 time period jackets over black and white t-shirts.

Facts: Executed= January 24, 1989 at 42 years old

Last Words = Trial length=

Eye for an eye Confessed to killing sority girls lots of murders police think over 100, confessed to 30 two reporters stating case facts and execution dates, times, places, guilty verdict, sentencing

**__Scene Two__**__: **The Cameron Willingham Case - to show why people are against it**__ The Setting – The News for February 17, 2004. Two Reporters in a TV news studio reporting on the headlines for that day.

Props – Two chairs, table, notepads, pens

Costumes – Professional clothes. , 2004 time period jackets over black or white t-shirts.

His last words "“Please don’t ever stop fighting to vindicate me.” Execute 2/17/2004 science now shows his trial was on junk evedince  science now shows he could never have started the fire in his house, it was not arson  We still like the two reporters now in 2004 reporting on the news, but we could  have a reporter interviewing family member sayin his last words to change it up.

**__Scene Three__**__: **Protestors - One protester For it and One Against it**__ The Setting – Present Day. Two protestors outside the Florida Dept. of Corrections in Starke Florida where Florida executions take place.

Costumes- Protestor 1 in white t-shirt. Protestor 2 in black t-shirt. (Remove jackets from Scene One and Two) Props – Two demonstration signs.

Sign 1 (on the front) says - "We should not play God" Sign 1 (on the back) says – “What right do we have to take a human life”

Sign 2 (on the front) says - "An Eye for an Eye" Sign 2 (on the back) says- “Even the score for the murdered” Protestor 1 says: “It’s not Fair.” Protestor 2 says: "You get what you deserve." Protestor 1 says: “We are human, we can make mistakes.” Protestor 2 says: “Let the punishment fit the crime.”

=**DRAFT#3(from 11/4)**=

**__Scene One__**__: **The Ted Bundy Case - to show why someone would support the death penalty**__ The Setting – Reporting the News for January 24, 1989. Two Reporters in a TV news studio reporting on the headlines for that day.

Props - Two chairs, table, notepads, pens

Costumes – Professional clothes, 1989 time period jackets over black and white t-shirts.

Facts: Executed= January 24, 1989 at 42 years old

Last Words = Trial = in Miami, Dade County

Eye for an eye Confessed to killing sority girls lots of murders police think over 100, confessed to 30 two reporters stating case facts and execution dates, times, places, guilty verdict, sentencing

**__Scene Two__**__: **The Cameron Willingham Case - to show why people are against it**__ The Setting – The News for February 17, 2004. Two Reporters in a TV news studio reporting on the headlines for that day.

Props – Two chairs, table, notepads, pens

Costumes – Professional clothes. , 2004 time period jackets over black or white t-shirts.

His last words "“Please don’t ever stop fighting to vindicate me.” Execute 2/17/2004 science now shows his trial was on junk evedince  science now shows he could never have started the fire in his house, it was not arson  We still like the two reporters now in 2004 reporting on the news, but we could  have a reporter interviewing family member sayin his last words to change it up.

**__Scene Three__**__: **Protestors - One protester For it and One Against it**__ The Setting – Present Day. Two protestors outside the Florida Dept. of Corrections in Starke Florida where Florida executions take place.

Costumes- Protestor 1 in white t-shirt. Protestor 2 in black t-shirt. (Remove jackets from Scene One and Two) Props – Two demonstration signs.

Sign 1 (on the front) says - "We should not play God" Sign 1 (on the back) says – “What right do we have to take a human life”

Sign 2 (on the front) says - "An Eye for an Eye" Sign 2 (on the back) says- “Even the score for the murdered”

Protestor 1 says: “It’s not Fair.” Protestor 2 says: "You get what you deserve." Protestor 1 says: “We are human, we can make mistakes.” Protestor 2 says: “Let the punishment fit the crime.”