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Pros And Cons Of The Death Penalty

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The article which title reads “Will more states abolish capital punishment?” is based most of it on facts. When an essay is based on facts, I believe gives a great amount of credibility considering the arguments that exist in the article. In addition, it shares valuable information about the criminal justice system in the United States.
This video is based on a true story; it is about a lawyer that needs to defend a young-adult boy since he has committed a murder. However, this story, in particular, could compel a change in the way you envisage the death penalty. He explains aspects of the process, and how everyone could prevent being in such awkward and unfortunate situation. I believe this could give me a broader perspective and understanding …show more content…

The subtitle “Pro/Con: Should capital punishment be abolished in the United States?” gave an insight into the debate which helped me understand both sides of the discussion. In addition, I believe the information will have a tremendous impact in my essay due to the fact that even though I was against the death penalty and still are, I could observe what other points of view were. This source was the first one investigated and I will utilize for my argumentative essay, moreover, it has urged me into the understanding of why this topic causes a number of conflicts in the societies around the world.
This article has awakened my curiosity since it has the chronology concerning the death penalty. The specific time when it started is July 2015 to June 2016, and it mentions the entire problem of executions taking place in the United States. It will be of great help since uncovering the problems and the facts will enhance the topic at hand. In addition, it will reveal information that will endure my argument, portraying my perspective with a clear view and truthful

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For the most part I agree with the writer idea. I like what the writer said how the justice was served by the court. Kinkl murdered 4 people and attempted 26 murder case, so he deserve 112 years to be in prison. Even though Kinkl has a mental disorder problem, he was a danger to the community and needed to be watched by the government for the public safety. The audience can clearly see what happened on the Kiniakl cause from the court report that is presented.

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Editor Anna Quindlen wrote many articles and essays conveying her opinion toward the death penalty. Such as, “Death Penalty Fails to Equal Retribution” and “Public & Private; The High Cost of Death”. Although Anna Quindlen makes many valuable accusations regarding her reasoning to being opposed to the death penalty, she undermines the real purpose of the penalty itself. The Death penalty, is indeed necessary. Many of the accusations Anna proclaims permit to the emotions of the victims families that have been robbed of their loved one by the said killer.

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David Oshinksy’s most recent book, Capital Punishment on Trial: Furman v. Georgia and the Death Penalty in Modern America, focuses on the extremely controversial yet important issue of capital punishment in the United States. Oshinsky’s text covers the debated topic in a scholarly yet concise way. With the text being a mere 125 pages, he covers the prolonged, contentious history of the death penalty. At the beginning of the book, Oshinsky describes what occurred in the early hours of August 11, 1967. William Micke was suddenly murdered in the hallway of his house by William Henry Furman, a disabled, illiterate 24 year old who had a troubled past with law enforcement.

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In his article “To Kill or Not to Kill”, Scott Turow tries to convince the audience advocating the capital-punishment system in Illinois to inspect its fairness and efficacy. He tackles this issue because he provides that the system is defective. Even though he goes back and forth from favoring the capital punishment issue to rejecting it, he clearly states his penalty opposition, supporting it with powerful examples, factual data, and a metaphor. To appear moral, credible, and knowledgeable, the author uses his scholarly tone, demonstrating his respectable position. He, as a lawyer and “one… members of a commission appointed by Governor”, had to present his position on the law during the reforms of the capital punishment system in Illinois.

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The topic I chose was actually breaking news last evening. On Tuesday night in Missouri, the Supreme Court halted a scheduled execution, stating delay of the lethal injection until a lower court ruled on the issue. In 1994, Ernest Lee Johnson was sentenced to death for killing three people with a claw hammer Attorney’s for Johnson asked the Supreme Court to stay the execution due to a surgery Johnson had in 2008 to remove a brain tumor. The attorneys wrote, part of the tumor in Johnson’s head could not be removed and he is missing between 15 and 20 percent of his brain. Citing a doctor’s medical expert opinion, he believes Johnson could suffer seizures due to the lethal injection.

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Finally including some data about the excruciating executions and the moratorium the death

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Imagine, your children are flipping through the channels and they come to find a prisoner being displayed ready to be executed. They have just witnessed a person's life being taken away. Zachary Shemtob teaches Criminal Justice at Central Connecticut State University; David Lat is a former federal prosecutor. Together, they worked on an essay and published it in the New York Times in 2011. The essay is an analysis of whether, "Executions Should be Televised.

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In the article The Shakespearean Roots Of Fox’s Empire (italics or quotation marks) by Sarah Osman, the author states that the story of the show empire it compares to plays written in the past by ShakeSpeare for example in the second paragraph the article says that the creators of empire Lee Daniels and Danny Strong derives from a combination of Shakespeare’s King Lear and James Goldman’s the lion in the winter. Another example is episode three has another title that is a quote from a Shakespeare play called The Devil Quotes Scripture this is a direct line from the controversial play The Merchant of Venice spoken by Antonio as he discusses business with the crafty shylock. So as you can see some episode titles of empire relate to plays written

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The capital punishment is well supported in this article. It clearly shows how ethos, pathos and logos support the why the capital punishment should be kept and not taken away. The reader is heavily given enough information to go towards the side of keeping the capital punishment. While there is little information why the punishment shouldn’t be used its not supported as well.

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The topic of capital punishment presents a test of values. The arguments in support of and opposition to the death penalty are complex. In the end, this is a question of an individual’s values and morals. The topic requires careful thought to reach a reasoned position. Both sides of the argument are defensible.

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I learned that you have to listen to everyone even if it seems like they will not have information needed you will never know unless you just listen to what they have to say because it is easy to incriminate the innocent but difficult to prove their innocence. This nonfiction book help me shaped my thoughts on the death penalty by opening my eyes to the truth, truth is that not everything is what it seems and not every offender is completely guilty for the crime they have been accused of. I now comprehend that each crime is different and sometimes it does include two offenders and even though those two offenders committed the crime and worked together to fulfill the goal to break a law, the Justice System is not always right and the sentences they give out are not always the correct ones. I am for the death penalty, although I have never lost a family member due to a criminal act, I still consider the death penalty a perfect sentence for someone who commits a crime of high risk so I agree with Harvey. Reading this novel has not changed my thoughts on the American Legal system, I have background knowledge on how the system works and I fully comprehend the advantages of being wealthy and getting trouble with the law.

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Why I Changed My Mind on The Death Penalty by Lance Morrow is a short story detailing why the death penalty should be eradicated. The story begins with it talking about Christina Marie Riggs a nurse who lived in Arkansas. She killed both of her children Justin who was 5, and his little sister Shelby Alexis by injecting them with Potassium chloride and later smothering them due to the concentration being too weak to kill them. Riggs later tried killing herself, but failed only to die later due to lethal injection. The same injection that she used on her children.

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Should America continue to allow the death penalty? This essay will tell you why America should not be continue the death penalty. For starters, the death penalty is punishment by death; usually resulting after a crime that America calls capital crimes or capital offences. There are many of reasons why the death penalty should not be carried out in America or anywhere “Application of the death penalty tends to be arbitrary and capricious; for similar crimes, some are sentenced to death while others are not.”

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This article discusses individual cases and crimes and gives analysis of the arguments made against death penalty in real world. Firstly it discusses the deterrence argument while going through a number of cases. The conclusion is that it has no effect on reducing homicides but ironically it breeds violence as in some cases offenders committed a capital crime in a territory where execution still prevails while they could have easily avoided it. Second thing discussed is the cost, the research in article shows that it costs significantly more money to put a convict to death than to incarcerate him for life in a prison. Moreover it is shown that in many cases criminals are executed while there are reasonable doubts in their convictions and some have avoided execution by just a few hours before being exonerated.

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He believed by explaining these details, it would offer more insight on why the death sentence should be enforced. Each case explained who the criminals were, what crime they committed, and what they did to their victims that got involved. By providing these cases the senator wanted to provide more insight to help others understand why they got the death penalty and why they deserved it. He then concludes that these days the death penalty is not enforced today as it was a long time ago and that the citizens who abide the law want a just punishment of the death penalty rather than a life

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