I need a attention getter for a death penalty essay?

Question

Im writing a death penalty persuasive essay for social studies and i dont believe in the death penalty i would appreciate any ideas.

Answer 1

"An eye for and eye leaves the whole world blind; or does it?"

Answer 2

I can't remember how I found this--but I did find it easily on an ask.com search a few months ago, but there are (I think) 8 states that have no death penalty. These states have a lower murder rate than states with the death penalty. I also recall the states that execute the most people have the highest murder rates. You might be able to go somewhere with that. Why should it matter if you commit a crime in one state and be executed and if you had done the same act in a neighboring state, not face execution? My state borders Texas and we have only had 1 execution in the last 40 years. I think Texas executes the most people. Our juries just don't give the death penalty. The other issues that have arisen regarding the death penalty in the last 4 or 5 years are 2 U.S. Supreme Court decisions that outlawed the death penalty for the mentally retarded and for juveniles. There has also been attention within the last year about whether lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment. Apparently it can be very painful. A couple of states have halted the death penalty while this issue is examined. California has an issue regarding lethal injection that's a bit different. Doctors have to administer the lethal injection and they are refusing to do so because it violates their oath to "first, do no harm." Obviously, you can't kill someone with a lethal injection and still honor the oath that doctors must take. Look at the Hippocratic oath doctors take to find that clause. I also recall that life imprisonment is less expensive than execution--much to my surprise. Try checking for these issues on line. I'm sorry I cannot remember where I found them, but I do remember I found them easily. Finally, we know that innocent persons have been executed and /or imprisoned only to be exonerated many years later by DNA evidence. Texas had a coroner and a prosecutor that were hiding this exculpatory evidence to get convictions. When DNA evidence found a number of apparently falsely convicted persons in Michigan, the governor in Michigan halted all executions. So there are some ideas--good luck.

Answer 3

Hey!, I'm writing a persuasive speech for that subject too! :)

I've been looking up at different parts of the internet to get information to suppourt my point [I'm also against death penalty], but why?

You should tell everybody that there are people who deserve punishment!, killing someone, and doing all class of really serious and horrible things SHOULD BE PUNISHED!, the thing is that a punishment like death it can be too hard!, because there has been found that 1 of out 3 people that were sentenced to death were innocent!!, how horrible is that?, the truth is that it's too much of a risk.

Besides, there is alternative punishments, that cost less money to the people, those are life-time impresionament with no chances of EVER going out.

Now, let's see the moral factors!, a person says "an eye for an eye"...ok?....but then again, how do you know that that person actually did it?, people usually want revenge!, and that is ok, yes you heard right, that is ok, it's normal as human beings to feel those kinds of emotions, but revenge shouldn't have a place in our justice system. [quote from: Bud Welch, who was the father of a murdered daughter.]

Also, there has been showed by statistics that there is some racial influences in the decision of death penalty. It says that:
Since death penalty was reinstated:
1,976,202 black people had been convicted for the murder of a white person.

Only 12 white people had been convicted for the murder of a black person.

Now, if you really want to make an impact you should make people think, what if you were falsely acused of murder, or a horrible crime that you didn't commit?, and then sentenced to death!, how would you feel?.

This issues can effect anybody, and that is why we shouldn't act so recklessly and suppourt it.

Answer 4

Capital Punishment Essay

Answer 5

Billy Austin
(Steve Earle)
My name is Billy Austin
I'm Twenty-Nine years old
I was born in Oklahoma
Quarter Cherokee I'm told
Don't remember Oklahoma
Been so long since I left home
Seems like I've always been in prison
Like I've always been alone
Didn't mean to hurt nobody
Never thought I'd cross that line
I held up a filling station
Like I'd done a hundred times
The kid done like I told him
He lay face down on the floor
guess I'll never know what made me
Turn and walk back through that door
The shot rang out like thunder
My ears rang like a bell
No one came runnin'
So I called the cops myself
Took their time to get there
And I guess I could'a run
I knew I should be feeling something
But I never shed tear one
I didn't even make the papers
'Cause I only killed one man
but my trial was over quickly
And then the long hard wait began
Court appointed lawyer
Couldn't look me in the eye
He just stood up and closed his briefcase
When they sentenced me to die
Now my waitin's over
As the final hour drags by
I ain't about to tell you
That I don't deserve to die
But there's twenty-seven men here
Mostly black, brown and poor
Most of em are guilty
Who are you to say for sure?
So when the preacher comes to get me
And they shave off all my hair
Could you take that long walk with me
Knowing hell is waitin' there
Could you pull that switch yourself sir
With a sure and steady hand
Could you still tell youself
That you're better than I am
My name is Billy Austin
I'm twenty-nine years old
I was born in Oklahoma
Quarter Cherokee I'm told

Answer 6

cost-------that gets everyones attention


Study Finds Death penalty Costly, Ineffective
A new report released by the Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury recommended changes to the stateÕs costly death penalty and called into question its effectiveness in preventing crime. The Office of Research noted that it lacked sufficient data to accurately account for the total cost of capital trials, stating that because cost and time records were not maintained, the Office of Research was unable to determine the total, comprehensive cost of the death penalty in Tennessee." Although noting that, "no reliable data exists concerning the cost of prosecution or defense of first-degree murder cases in Tennessee," the report concluded that capital murder trials are longer and more expensive at every step compared to other murder trials. In fact, the available data indicated that in capital trials, taxpayers pay half again as much as murder cases in which prosecutors seek prison terms rather than the death penalty. Findings in the report include the following:

* Death penalty trials cost an average of 48% more than the average cost of trials in which prosecutors seek life imprisonment.
* Tennessee District Attorneys General are not consistent in their pursuit of the death penalty.
* Surveys and interviews of district attorneys indicate that some prosecutors "use the death penalty as a 'bargaining chip' to secure plea bargains for lesser sentences."
* Previous research provides no clear indication whether the death penalty acts as a method of crime prevention.
* The Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals reversed 29 percent of capital cases on direct appeal.
* Although any traumatic trial may cause stress and pain for jurors, the victims' family, and the defendant's family, the pressure may be at its peak during death penalty trials.

Answer 7

Innocent people are being discovered in our prisons every day. How many are there on death row? Our system is not perfect. Guilty people can and do go free and innocent people are sometimes convicted. Which is worse, to let a guilty person go free, or to execute someone who is innocent? This might be a good angle to explore.

Answer 8

Sorry, I agree with capital punishment. I was a correction officer and wished I had an opportunity to at least plug the chair in.

By the way, work with some of these inmates for a while and your view on the death penalty will change. These guys are animals, simple predators that would kill you because they don't like the way you look.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

talk about state sanctioned killing of innocent people, then go into a tirade about the number of innocent people put to death every year on false convictions

Answer 11

My own personal justification: if someone killed my mom, dad or brother...I'd want to do the same to them. Not very essay worthy, but not hypocritical either.