The Death Penalty
Capital Punishment: Justice or Injustice?
Outline
Intro: Give a description regarding the history of the death penalty.
Paragraph 1: Discuss the purpose of the capital punishment. Give the when, where, and why of the death penalty.
Paragraph 2: Talk about the types of people put to death and the different forms of the death penalty.
Paragraph3: Discuss and reference all the supporters of the death penalty and the reasons why they support death.
Paragraph 4: Discuss and reference all the supporters of abolishing the death penalty and their reasons why the support life.
Paragraph 5: Discuss my views of the death penalty and any calls to action to support this view.
Conclusion
Final Argument Revised
Capital Punishment: Justice or Injustice?
By
Calvin D. Johnson
EN361
Dr. Kim Carter-Cram
October 31st, 2007
Has anyone asked your views on capital punishment? The words lethal injection, electrocution, and gas chamber are synonymous with the death penalty. Even in today’s society of die-hard liberals, right-winged republicans, and middle of the road democrats the capital punishment argument is still a squeamish topic that incites strong emotional debate from abolitionists and supporters. In an online article titled “The History of the Death Penalty, Part I” it states: The history of the death penalty laws date back as far as the Eighteenth Century B.C. in the code of king Hammaurabi of Babylon times. (p. 1) Capital punishment appealed to other countries like Rome, Greece, and Britain. These countries had public gatherings that showcased forms of death to include crucifixion, impalement, drowning, boiling, burning, and beheadings for such crimes as witchcraft, treason, stealing, immorality, infidelity, and religion, just to name a few. During these times, capital punishment happened to men, women and children, regardless of color, class or privilege. The ideology of public executions is discussed in a book
Outline
Intro: Give a description regarding the history of the death penalty.
Paragraph 1: Discuss the purpose of the capital punishment. Give the when, where, and why of the death penalty.
Paragraph 2: Talk about the types of people put to death and the different forms of the death penalty.
Paragraph3: Discuss and reference all the supporters of the death penalty and the reasons why they support death.
Paragraph 4: Discuss and reference all the supporters of abolishing the death penalty and their reasons why the support life.
Paragraph 5: Discuss my views of the death penalty and any calls to action to support this view.
Conclusion
Final Argument Revised
Capital Punishment: Justice or Injustice?
By
Calvin D. Johnson
EN361
Dr. Kim Carter-Cram
October 31st, 2007
Has anyone asked your views on capital punishment? The words lethal injection, electrocution, and gas chamber are synonymous with the death penalty. Even in today’s society of die-hard liberals, right-winged republicans, and middle of the road democrats the capital punishment argument is still a squeamish topic that incites strong emotional debate from abolitionists and supporters. In an online article titled “The History of the Death Penalty, Part I” it states: The history of the death penalty laws date back as far as the Eighteenth Century B.C. in the code of king Hammaurabi of Babylon times. (p. 1) Capital punishment appealed to other countries like Rome, Greece, and Britain. These countries had public gatherings that showcased forms of death to include crucifixion, impalement, drowning, boiling, burning, and beheadings for such crimes as witchcraft, treason, stealing, immorality, infidelity, and religion, just to name a few. During these times, capital punishment happened to men, women and children, regardless of color, class or privilege. The ideology of public executions is discussed in a book
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