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I have to write an outline for a persuasive essay, in the outline I have to prove that hte death penalty is cruel and unusual, to prove that it violates the bill of rights clause, cruel and unusual. I need some websites that help prove that the death penalty is cruel and unusual. Any thing would help as long as it has a source!

Answer 1

Try the following web sites. I had a similar essay to write, and found these very helpful.

Good luck!

deathpenaltyinfo.msu.edu
www.nodeathpenalty.org

Answer 2

I did a paper in college on being against the death penalty because it is cruel and unusual.

I looked at microfiche (old newspaper storage system) and found lots of evidence.

There were examples of men who had been electrocuted several times because they weren't killed quickly enough, men who had been lit on fire while alive because the electricity was so powerful. Another reason it is cruel is that there is always the possibility of finding out that someone was innocent of the crime, and being put to death makes the undeserved punishment irreversible. I found an example of a man who had been put to death, but then was later found innocent of the crime for which he was sentenced.

Answer 3

Imagine being on death row for almost 18 years, knowing you may be executed any day, and knowing that you are innocent. Juan Melendez went through this, and was released when the courts finally looked at the confession (which they had all along) of another man.

Or the case of Ray Krone sentenced to death on the basis of faulty forensics, now a free man. Police and prosecutors resisted requests to revisit the case, but finally realized that the real killer was in a state data base when they finally got around to checking his DNA.

These are real people. You can read about them and the 121 others who were freed from death rows with evidence of their innocence. It horrifies me that they could have been killed, in our name.

Another thing is that the death penalty can be extremely hard on families of murder victims. They are forced to relive their ordeal, in courts and in the media, over and over again. Some of them have said that while they support the death penalty in principal, they prefer life without parole because of what the death penalty process does to families like theirs.

An execution creates a new set of victims, that is the families of the person executed. In addition to their grief, they are stigmatized for something that they did not do.

Executions have been horribly botched. Jesse Tafero's head caught fire during his execution.

Carrying out a death sentence is very hard on executioners. Dow Hover, the last man to carry out executions in New York and in New Jersey, later committed suicide. Executioners and wardens in Mississippi and Alabama all attributed their mental and physical health problems to their involvement with lethal injection. There are more stories like these.

There are other reasons to do away with the death penalty. It’s not an ineffective way to reduce crime. It costs much more than life without parole. It is not a deterrent. States that have the death penalty have higher homicide rates than states that do not have the death penalty.

None of this should suggest that I believe that brutal acts should go unpunished. But common sense, based on an awareness of the facts, should be applied, rather than blind vengeance.

Answer 4

Don’t behave like a politician who thinks that no matter what he talks about, everyone must believe him. Try to convince, not forgetting about your opposition. Be polite, but persuasive.
Here's what you should look at, I think:
http://www.prodeathpenalty.com/
the information there is by no doubts arguable. and interesting:-)
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Answer 5

i dont have a website but i have info. . .

You can say that if someone is getting the death penalty for, lets say murder, you can say that we are doing the same thing to them we are murdering them
even though they took someone's life away, we are taking THEIR life away

Hope this Helps!

Answer 6

aww..that sucks...because..its not.