Task 3. Read the text for a second time and decide which sentences are true and which ones are false: 1. Many European countries support the idea of capital punishment 2. 18 countries of the world have abolished capital punishment. 3. Every year a lot of prisoners are executed in Japan. 4. Opponents are sure that capital punishment reduces the percent of violent crimes. 5. In lots of countries adolescents are sent to prison. Task 4. Read the article again and complete the sentences: 1. In ... capital punishment is carried out by hanging. a) The USA; b) China; c) Kenya. 2. The UN supported ... a) the abolition of capital punishment; b) the death penalty; c) execution by lethal injection. 3. In 1987 the American study showed that ... not guilty people were executed in the USA. a) 23; b) 18; c) 27. 4. In Nigeria, ... Iraq, Bangladesh, Barbados the United States children under 18 have been lawfully put to death. a) Russia; (b) Iran; c) Great Britain. 5. In .. the purpose of the penalty for theft was to frighten people from stealing. a) in modern England; b)in the 18th century England; c) in the 18th century Wales.