Kan iemand mij engels presentatie tekst nakijken?

[ewout0]

Zouden jullie mijn tekst voor mijn engels presentatie kunnen nakijken. Misschien dat er nog wat grammatica fouten inzitten. Het gaat over de doodstraf.

I’m going to tell you something about the death penalty.
Death penalty, the capital punishment, or execution is the sentence of death upon a person by the state as a punishment for a crime. From the beginning of societies, the death penalty has been used to get rid of murderers, rapists or thieves. In the Middle Ages witches and criminals were easily putted to death; capital punishment was seen as a way to scare the people, and make sure that others wouldn’t commit serious crimes.
There are different ways of the death penalty for different kinds of crimes. The current ways of execution are merciful in comparison to the old days. At present hanging, gassing, electrocution and deadly injections are the most popular ways of putting criminals to death.
People who are in favour of the death penalty believe that it will prevent acts of revenge. The death penalty would also be more humane and cheaper, and it’s the only way to save the public moral. Since the nineteenth century people began to disagree with this way of punishing criminals. The death penalty was said to be inhumane; and many people believed that a government does not have the right to take another person's life. Article number three of the Universal Rights of Man says that everybody has a right to live. In some large countries like the United States, China and Russia the death penalty is still in use.
According to information published by Amnesty International in 2012, 97 countries had abolished capital punishment altogether, 8 had done so for all offences except under special circumstances, and 34 had not used it for at least 10 years. The other 58 retained the death penalty in active use.
In the United States of America capital punishment still exists. Murderers can be convicted to the electric chair. Last year, Timothy Mc Veigh was convicted to a deadly injection in Indiana. In 1995 he blew up a government building in Oklahoma City, because he felt like he was in war with the government of America. In Holland, his deed would have only cost him livelong imprisonment. The death penalty is even more expensive then convicting someone to imprisonment for the rest of his live.
For example, California had little money for innovations like community policing, but was managing to spend an extra $90 million per year on capital punishment. Texas, with over 300 people on death row, is spending an estimated $2.3 million per case, but its murder rate remains one of the highest in the country.
Capital punishment is in conflict with certain believes and is considered to be inhumane. There are many innocent victims cases. Lifelong without reduction of punishment seems a better idea to those people. And you can ask yourself what a better punishment is: dying without any pain or spending the rest of your live in prison. This was my speech about the death penalty.


Alvast bedankt!

[DAH]

Ik zit te twijfelen over 'putted', maar behalve dat is het wel goed, volgens mij.
Put, putted, putted. Put, putten, put. I don't know.

[mathfreak]

*ik geef hieronder de tekst met de nodige correcties weer*
I’m going to tell you something about the death penalty.
Death penalty, the capital punishment, or execution is the sentence of death upon a person by the state as a punishment for a crime. From the beginning of societies, the death penalty has been used to get rid of murderers, rapists or thieves. In the Middle Ages witches and criminals were easily put to death; capital punishment was seen as a way to scare the people, and make sure that others wouldn’t commit serious crimes.
*put volgt het vervoeginsschema put-put-put*
There are different ways of the death penalty for different kinds of crimes. The current ways of execution are merciful in comparison to the old days. At present hanging, gassing, electrocution and deadly injections are the most popular ways of putting criminals to death.
People who are in favour of the death penalty believe that it will prevent acts of revenge. The death penalty would also be more humane and cheaper, and it’s the only way to save the public moral. Since the nineteenth century people began to disagree with this way of punishing criminals. The death penalty was said to be inhumane; and many people believed that a government does not have the right to take another person's life. Article number three of the Universal Rights of Man says that everybody has a right to live. In some large countries like the United States, China and Russia the death penalty is still in use.
According to information published by Amnesty International in 2012, 97 countries had abolished capital punishment altogether, 8 had done so for all offences except under special circumstances, and 34 had not used it for at least 10 years. The other 58 retained the death penalty in active use.
In the United States of America capital punishment still exists. Murderers can be convicted to the electric chair. Last year, Timothy Mc Veigh was convicted to a deadly injection in Indiana. In 1995 he blew up a government building in Oklahoma City, because he felt like he was at war with the government of America. In the Netherlands, his deed would have only cost him lifelong imprisonment. The death penalty is even more expensive than convicting someone to imprisonment for the rest of his live.
*let op het verschil tussen het vergelijkend voegwoord than en het bijwoord van tijd then*
For example, California had little money for innovations like community policing, but was managing to spend an extra $90 million per year on capital punishment. Texas, with over 300 people on death row, is spending an estimated $2.3 million per case, but its murder rate remains one of the highest in the country.
Capital punishment is in conflict with certain beliefs and is considered to be inhumane. There are many innocent victims' cases. Lifelong without reduction of punishment seems a better idea to those people. And you can ask yourself what a better punishment is: dying without any pain or spending the rest of your life in prison. This was my speech about the death penalty.

Let op het verschil tussen life (leven als zelfstandig naamwoord) en live, wat levend of in leven betekent. Let ook op het verschil in belief (geloof in de zin van "een bepaalde opvatting hebben") en de werkwoordsvorm believe.