HUMAN RIGHTS
EXECUTION
WAITING TO DIE
HISTORY
FOR EARS AND EYES
100
A signed agreement of the way people should treat each other
What is 'The Declaration of Human Rights'?
100
When execution is carried out by use of chemicals/drugs
What is lethal injection?
100
The part of a prison where prisoners await their execution
What is death row?
100
The first known document about human rights
What is The Code of Hamurabi
100
A famous hip hop song about a boy on death row
What is '16 On Death Row'?
200
A pamphlet that all members were asked to distribute in their countries
What is 'The Universal Declaration of Human Rights'?
200
A synonym for death penalty
What is capital punishment?
200
A man who was acquitted in 1981 after serving 8 years on death row
Who is Ernest Graham
200
The amendment to the US Constitution that abolishes slavery
What is The Thirteenth Amendment
200
A movie about a woman who is on death row for a murder that, as it turns out, never happened
What is 'Return to Sender' or 'Convicted'?
300
Human rights organization that was established by Peter Benenson
What is Amnesty International?
300
A small room where prisoners were executed by inhaling cyanide
What is the gas chamber?
300
The amount of money Earl Washington Jr. received after he was acquitted
What is $1.9 million?
300
The commision that was launched in 2007
What is The Equality and Human Rights Commision
300
A rapper who wrote a song about sitting on death row
What is Tupac Shakur?
400
Peter Benenson's expression for prisoners who were in prison because of their political views, religious beliefs, race or sexual orientation
What are 'prisoners of conscience'?
400
The state where 37% of all executions in the US take place
What is Texas?
400
Another word for 'proved innocent'
What is 'exonerated'?
400
England's first human rights document
What is Magna Carta?
400
A movie, featuring Tom Hanks, about a very large black man with magic hands who is wrongfully convicted of raping and murdering a little girl
What is 'The Green Mile'?
500
A burning candle with barbed wire around it
What is Amnesty International's logo/symbol?
500
People who were against slavery and death penalty
What are 'abolitionists'?
500
An expression for death row that is also the name of a famous movie
What is The Green Mile?
500
The bill that was passed in the US in 1964
What is The Civil Rights bill?
500
A short story by George Orwell that describes an execution
What is 'A Hanging'?
Continue
ESC
Reveal Correct Response
Spacebar
M
e
n
u
Team 1
0
+
-
Death Penalty and Human Rights
No teams
1 team
2 teams
3 teams
4 teams
5 teams
6 teams
7 teams
8 teams
9 teams
10 teams
Custom
Press
F11
Select menu option
View > Enter Fullscreen
for full-screen mode
Edit
•
Print
•
Download
•
Embed
•
Share
JeopardyLabs