Death Penalty: Pre-AP 9
Ethically we often argue the Death Penalty and most see it as a sin however, picture this, a man is convicted of mass murder after burning 12 kindergarteners alive and, injuring 4 for life. Do you think he deserves only a life in prison? This is a real story about a man named Bai Ningyang who did just that. He was convicted of murder and was sentenced to death and rightfully so: the death penalty is justified thru a website called ProDeathPenalty.com and using Lesson Before Dying a fiction novel. I will also be using multiple resources from around the internet.
In A Lesson Before Dying, Jefferson is wrongly accused in an accident where he went into a store with his friends and, his friends tried to rob the store clerk. This then results in both of his friends dead, the clerk dead
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Davis and Douglas E. Gray to escape a Stringtown, Okla., prison on March 16. Both were serving life sentences for homicide. Davis stabbed a man 80 times with a knife during a 1974 robbery while Gray fatally beat and shot a teacher in 1988.
After hiding in a truck bound for the local post office, prison authorities say, the convicts seized the vehicle from its driver. They reportedly entered a woman's home, tied her up, stole her guns and fled in her Ford Taurus. Later, officials say, the two car-jacked a pickup truck containing two rifles.
After being spotted by a cop, Davis and Gray held an elderly couple hostage in their home for seven hours on March 24. Gray gave up while Davis apparently committed suicide.” (http://prodeathpenalty.com/murdock.htm)
This story tells how even though they had served time in prison, they still could escape and harm more people. If they had been put to death row this could have been prevented completely. With letting people go to jail for major crimes instead of being put on death row the problem is not solved and it only becomes