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The death penalty

Durée : 1’21’’

 Liens avec les notions du programme : Lieux et formes du pouvoir – Espaces et échanges
 Nature du document : Bulletin d’information – Analyse d’une situation ou d’un événement –
Exposition de sentiments ou de souhaits – Exposition d’un point de vue

Émission radiophonique animée par Laura Sullivan, diffusée le 7 avril 2012 sur NPR.

Script
LAURA SULLIVAN: This week, the state senate in Connecticut voted to abolish the death penalty, and it is expected to become law. Connecticut will be the 17th State to repeal capital punishment.
The debate coincided with two of the highest profile murder trials in the state’s history.
As Diane Orson, of member station WNPR reports, residents are now divided over what a repeal of the death penalty will mean for those already on death row.
DIANE ORSON: State senators in Connecticut have approved a bill that would abolish the death penalty and make the maximum sentence life in prison without parole. State Senator Edward
Meyer says the measure affects only future crimes.
STATE SENATOR EDWARD MEYER: And this bill that we passed with this prospective is not retroactive. It doesn’t affect the eleven inmates that are on death row right now.
DIANE ORSON: What happens to current death row inmates is key in Connecticut, following a brutal 2007 triple homicide in the suburban town of Cheshire. Two paroled felons broke into a home and held the Petit family hostage for hours. The mother and daughters were killed. The father was badly beaten but survived. The men responsible had been tried, convicted and sentenced to death. Critics of the legislation warn that any bill to end capital punishment could be used as grounds for appeal to spare those on death row.
© NPR, 2012.

© Hatier, 2012

Résumé en français
La peine de mort
La présentatrice annonce que le Sénat de l’État du Connecticut a voté cette semaine en faveur d’une abolition de la peine de mort, abolition qui devrait devenir loi prochainement. Le