i have to do a debate in school about the death penalty i need as much comments to say as possible?
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state some facts like the amount of innocent people put to death. the biases that the courts have in handing out death sentences(race, etc...)Playing god. morality of it\nI feel its done to save money. ...easier to kill someone than to pay to keep them in jail the rest of their lives.
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introduction- sound engaging. convince your reader that your topic is an issue thats worth considering. clearly and strongly state your opinion. and try not to use a passive voice when doing this.\n\nbody paragraphs- give reasons to support your opinion. try to appeal to your audience. you can appeal to common sense, logic, emotion, ethics, etc. giving evidence is also a good idea. statistics work great. and if you can show that you did soe good research, im sure your teacher will love it.\n\nconclusion- if you like, give a quick summary of your reasons. state you opinion statement. and... a "call to action" where you are calling to the reader to take action and act on your opinion. when doing this, assume your reader strongly believes and agrees with your opinion and view on the issue.
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Wholeheartedly. I think we should have a stupid box that we can put all of the stupid people in and then burn them all. (j/p i know that's not feasible...) The death penalty is a necessary evil, and i support it.
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Absolutely, and in a Public forum. Televise it as well as injections, electrocutions, and gas chambers. I would take it a step further. If guilt is proven beyond a shadow of a doubt, they should bring back beheading. I'll bet crime would be diminished drastically. Why should we support these bastards, and pay for their education in prison? I'm with you pal! Sometimes you have to ask and answer the hard questions.
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I hope that you are stuck with arguing in a debate class the losing side of something that is morally indefensable.  Here are some historical sites
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Good side about the death penalty?\n\nWell...\n\nhttp://www.richard.clark32.btinternet.co.uk/thoughts.html#pro\n\nTry that website for both pros and cons.\n\nThe main reason is that it's a deterrent for criminals.
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Sanddeep_tamma, it seems that Issue and Arguement relate to Rhetoric. \nIn my opinion I believe that you would chose an issue (controversial) and argue either for or against it.\nAlthough I am not certain of my reply's validity, this seems to be the case to me.\n\nIf this is the case I an including for your reading pleasure a paper that I researched and composed for my Rhetoric class. If this is not what you are looking for, well I tried.  \nReady? Wanna  Hear it? Here it goes.\n\nAn Argument against the Death Penalty\nIt seems forever that society has grappled with the dilemma of capital punishment.  Conceivable and acceptable at this time it may be, however this author finds harsh such an act, such as that of putting someone to death, without preservation, remorse or immediate human reflex.  It is the opinion of this author that our Creator did not appoint humanity to seek any such remedies in our societies efforts/struggles in our daily task of preventing crime, and therefore a more civil method should be explored and embraced by our society.  Capital punishment should be avoided as the ultimate sanction.  \nAlthough our society’s Criminal Justice System is as fair as can be acquired up to now, in my opinion, it is still not civilized to execute anyone under any circumstances and at this time, “Me as an author” presents the following reasons for my strong belief.\nFirst I am not in agreement with a sadistic rapist or killer, but I am also not in civil harmony when we as a society put to death (cold-blooded murder) a person of diminished mental capacity.  How many of these people have we executed in our life times?  For example is the case of Johnny Paul Penry.  John Paul was convicted of rape and murder; however, Penry’s intelligence quotient was evaluated at 60 on the IQ scale, and arrived on death row with a box of crayons and a coloring book as his sole possessions.  In my opinion, justice would have been better served if Penry had originally been sentenced to a life sentence without parole.  Containment is ours’ to dole, but not so an unnatural social vengeance.  Although Penry came near to being executed, this case has afforded us a closer look at a reality and who we really are. \nSecond in event is the case of Leonel Torres Hernandez; convicted of capital murder (Mercedes, Texas).  Hernandez was accused of shooting to death a Department of Public Safety trooper.  This author does not favor violence directed at anyone, much less to a public servant while in the tending to his or her duties.  The particulars of this case which are of concern to me and to skeptics of the death penalty are that a nephew of Leonel T.  Hernandez testified that it was not Leonel, which killed the officer, but that the real murderer was his own father.  Twice insensitive jurors did not accept this young man’s affidavits (testimony), and Leonel was finally executed in May of 1993.  “Was he innocent? Had something very wrong happened, just as Leonel said that it had?  A quote from the Prison Chaplain Carrol Pickett in attendance states, “I am doomed to forever wonder”.  “It is very evident that people are not sent to death row to rehabituate”, or so say proponents of extreme capital punishment; however, these supporters of the death penalty are incapable of feeling remorse in killing innocents. In my opinion, such people should not allow anger or bias to direct their behavior in approaching their civic activities or responsibilities, and so as the Prison Chaplain said, these people are (also) “doomed to forever wonder”, when it was optionally reasonable to sentence Hernandez to life without parole.\nThird in succession is the case of Carlos DeLuna, a 27-year-old native from Corpus Christi, Texas sentenced to death for capital murder.  “Will the needles hurt?” \n“Chaplain, will you please hold my hand as I am dying?”  And so were the last words of DeLuna when he once more asked the preacher to hold his hand
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What alternate justice system would you recommend? Or is this a statement against the death penalty? If so, why don't you just say so.\n\nWould it be better to let a guilty person that had raped and murdered you daughter/wife/mother go free?
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Go to yahoo.com and try searching using key terms such as: pro death penalty, pro capital punishment.  Below are a couple of sites I came up with.
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Thesis Statement:\n\nI used Yahoo! Answers for a report. Thousands of mischeivous people like the person that gave me this thesis could tell me all sorts of crap. Suicide is great for the environment.\n\n<BACK THIS UP WITH REASONS>
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I am a staunch supporter of the death penalty. A lot of people say "well the death penalty is not a deterrent so why are we using it".. I always have to laugh when people say this. The people who are against capital punishment were the first people to use this argument. Never have I heard a proponent of the death penalty regard it as such. It is about JUSTICE... Not deterrence..\n\nThen of course the other argument is "death penalty is barbaric"... well, so is killing innocent people.\n\nAnother fun argument that I cant get enough of... "Pro lifers are for the death penalty, how hypocritical".. We are talking about a convicted murderer versues an innocent child... very big difference.\n\n...\nI know there are a lot more arguments against the death penalty, but those are my favorites. Thanks for letting me vent.
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I'd address three topics:\n\n1.Is it justified (eg. eye for an eye, revenge Vs rehabilitation, rights of the victim and their family, risk of miscarriage etc)\n2.Is it effective (eg. is it a deterent, does it make better societies, is it cheaper than permanent incarceration etc)\n3.Is it legal (eg. is it a cruel and unusual punishment, the position of international law, etc)\n\nYou've probably been asked the US/UK part because we are fairly similar societies with a largely common ancestry\nand tradition, but the UK abolished the death penalty whilst much of the US still uses it.  You can go two ways on this - \n1. the US is a much younger society still in a vigourous development phase facing the challenges of it's huge size and diversity so frontier justice is still appropriate (similar claims for China by the way, the other big executor).  when the UK was trying to hold a huge empire together it executed loads of people too.\n2. the existence in the US of a more fundemental christianity gives people a different perspective on life (and death) from the broadly humanist (post christian) views in Europe (including the UK) where morality is more personal and less something learned from religion.  Religious Europe was a very bloody place indeed for hundreds of years.\n\nHope this helps, BTW my opinion is that it is as morally justifiable as war.  I really don't want to have to do it, but sometimes I might have to protect my family and society.  Right now I think both our societies could live without capital punishment, and therefore should - but that could change.
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i've done this before too. alright. the death penalty is bad for many reasons.\n\none. the death penalty is cruel and unusual. the death penalty lowers us down to murderer status. we are murdering a person that could very well be kept alive, and that very person could be kept in life imprisonment. sure, they couuld break out, but the chances are so slim, we have to say that it's worth it. we as america keep ourselves to be a very humane country, and when we kill people, we really aren't keeping that title. when people die on the chair, they sometimes have to be electrocuted multiple times before they die. i'm sure the criminals deserve it, but by doing this, we're doing the same. especiall cause the viable alternative, the life sentence, is a lot better and a lot more humane, yet still causes punishment.\n\nsecond, you could say that the death penalty serves as a deterrent, or it serves to make sure that other criminals WONT kill. HOWEVER, studies show that the death penalty actually RAISES the rate of violent crime in states. that's true-- the death penalty DOES increase the rate of murder-- it's a proven fact. \n\nthird, people say that the death penalty is good for the victim's family. however, why make the family suffer time and time again through endless trials? we are only fueling anger by killing people, because they have to be reminded of the murder trial again and again, throughout 20 years of trials.\n\nfourth, the death penalty from a religious standpoint. if you're religious. jesus said not to kill. the "eye for an eye" thing in the old testament was overrules by jesus's teachings. and he said to turn the other cheek, not to kill again. sure, we should say "hey murderer, kill another!" but we should certainly not kill them back.\n\nthanks, and i hope i was helpful.
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I would mention how permanent a penalty it is.  When a mistake is made, there's no way to correct it.  With DNA evidence now freeing falsely convicted people almost weekly, it's clear that the system is flawed.  Even DNA evidence that clears an executed person can't bring him back from the dead.  Research the "Innocence Project," and you should get some powerful arguments for abolishing (or at least modifying) the death penalty.
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State what you are going to prove.  List 5 ideas that prove your statement.  Conclude by saying what you just proved.  (e,g, BEGINNING: It's not good for kids under the age of ___ to walk to and home from school alone. FIVE SUPPORTING POINTS:  1. it subjects children to victimization by criminals; 2. it subjects kids to physical injury while crossing the street; 3. kids who are victims of crime are subject to grow up with deep traumas and sometimes have lasting phobias; 4. parents whose children are kidnapped, murdered, molested, etc. are sometimes more likely to be less productive members of society due to life-long grief and related emotional problems; 5(a). parents who fail to adequately provide for the safety of their children increase the burden on law enforcement agencies who have to incur time and resources in locating children, or 5(b) all society is hurt when children are hurt because everyone loves children. CONCLUSION:  Therefore, due to the fact that -------, ----, -----, -----, and ----, parents should not allow children under the age of ___ to walk to and from school unchaparoned by an adult or responsible older child.\n\nThat's just an example.\n\nYour essay is something you want to prove.  It has a beginning, a middle and an end.  It can be anything from "Why it's tough to make it in the world today," to "Why I've chosen to be a ____" when I graduate.  Have fun with it - and goodluck.  \n\nBe sure to choose a NARROW topic - it gets crazy when you choose a broad topic. Then brainstorm only stopping to make rough notes of what comes out of your mind.  Just let all your thoughts about the subject flow out uninhibited. Don't interrupt the flow. Then look closely at all the rough ideas and select the best ones.  Hopefully, you'll have 10 or more. Next, pick the top five-your very best-points.  Now you have your topic and 5 excellent points to support your topic.\n\nP.S.  It's a good idea to deal with ideas that are the extreme position of yours, but discuss them in your essay to dispel them or break them down.  Whenever you write anything, assume that the reader already knows the other side.  So deal with it, acknowledging it, BUT topple it with your points. For example:  for point 1 above, which reads: subjects children to victimization by criminals.  Some parents will say, "we live in a safe neighborhood and no children have ever been harmed in our neighborhood" -- you might want to write:  Some parents believe their neighborhoods are safe and permit their children to walk to and from school.  Other parents allow their children to walk to and from school because the school is onely a couple of blocks down the street.  The reason neither of these ideas are good ones is because statistics have shown that child molesters are subject to pick up kids from affluent neighborhoods as they are from other ones.  [sometime like that - gotta run - hope it helps]
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go visit your local prison....they should have some death row inmates you can test it on!
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First of all, calm down, breathe, and relax.  You have three weeks.  You can do this and make a good grade, I promise.\n\nYour paper is supposed to be persuasive, so that means that you need to find a topic that has pros and cons.  And then you have to take a side, for or against.  Think about this one, because you want your topic to be something you care about.  If you care, you'll write a deeper, more impassioned paper, and earn a better grade.\n\nA word about topics: I'd steer clear of abortion, because it's personal.  What works for one person doesn't work for another, and there's no changing people's minds about deeply personal matters.  Likewise, I wouldn't recommend religion either.  Death and taxes are good, though.  Is burial better than cremation?  Should there be a flat tax or not?\n\nThe next step is your actual research.  Make sure that your topic isn't too broad (The Punic Wars) or too narrow (the use of the short sword in hand-to-hand fighting during the Punic Wars).  This means you're going to have to go to the library and read lots of books, and look online, and go through the archive stacks.  Expect to spend about one hour researching for every page you write.\n\nWhen writing a good research paper, it's important to think like a lawyer.  That is, you need to pretend as if you're presenting your paper as if it were a court case.  Your teacher is the judge, and the prosecution is out to disprove your case.  A really good persuasive paper takes into account all the "Yeah, but what about...?" questions.  If you can answer, logically, precisely and clearly, any questions that someone arguing the opposite point can bring up, you will prove your case, and make your argument airtight.  (I use argument here in the classic sense of presenting a thesis for consideration.)\n\nYour conclusion should not simply restate your introduction, but rather go beyond the introduction.  You should think critically and give valid, on-point reasons why your idea is better, more practical, more valid, and overall how it benefits people more.\n\nIf you can do this, you will have written an "A" persuasive paper.  Please feel free to contact me if you need anymore help.\n\nCheers, K (teacher for 14 years)