Execute Prisoners For The Sake Of Convenience By Dahlia Lithwick Rhetorical Analysis

“Does Death Penalty Save Lives? A New Debate.” The New York Times. The New York Times.

The death penalty is a topic that has been argued for and against by many people. Some have no qualms with the punishment while others protest it greatly. As such there are three main arguments that are presented by both sides; is the death penalty immoral, does the death penalty deter crime, and should the death penalty ultimately be allowed in the court of law.

A broken; crooked Justice System is a sad but unforgotten tale of our nation. “Just Mercy” tells the everyday motif of an innocent person wrongfully convicted to death until new DNA evidence has been brought up. Even the states that still sentence people to capital punishment have botched people’s lives and cleared them of all charges years after their execution. “Just Mercy,” personalizes the struggle and hardship minorities face every day while dealing with injustice in the story of one lawyer Bryan Stevenson.

In the United States, the use of the death penalty continues to be a controversial issue. Every election year, politicians, wishing to appeal to the moral sentiments of voters, routinely compete with each other as to who will be toughest in extending the death penalty to those persons who have been convicted of first-degree murder. Both proponents and opponents of capital punishment present compelling arguments to support their claims. Often their arguments are made on different interpretations of what is moral in a just society. In this essay, I intend to present major arguments of those who support the death penalty and those who are opposed to state sanctioned executions application . However, I do intend to fairly and accurately

Although lethal injections and juvenile criminals seem unrelated topics, they both deal with problems in the criminal justice system. The titles are “Should Juvenile Criminals Be Sentenced Like Adults?” by Abigail Pesta. Pesta is an award-winning journalist and an author; she was also a graduate from the University of Notre Dame. “Lethal Injection for Execution: Chemical Asphyxiation?” by Teresa A. Zimmerman, Jonathan Sheldon, David A. Lubarsky, Francisco Lopez-Munoz, Linda Waterman, Richard Weisman, and Leonidas G. Koniaris. These writers graduated from the University of Miami. However, all were medical majors, but in different areas. In Pesta’s article she tells the story about a young man named Sean, who spent time behind bars in Riker’s Island, NY. In this article the authors gave specific information about the effects of lethal injections and whether if they act as intended or not. The audience for both is the public, justice system, and people in the medical field. The purpose of the first article is to inform the audience on someone’s perspective behind bars and how it affected them. Also, this article was thesis driven. Then the second article’s purpose is to show how unreliable lethal injections. The format of this article is IMRAD. These two articles show us how the justice system is flawed.

In the article, “THE REAL ANSWER TO MASS INCARCERATION”, Gilad Edelman analyzes President Obama's views on the increasingly high prison population in the United States, and what his plans are to help the mass incarceration issue our country faces.The author refers to the statistics given by Obama during his speech that demonstrated the high percentage of prisoners we have in the United States compared to the rest of the world. Gilad Edelman also addresses one of Obama's main focuses which is the impact nonviolent criminals have in our prison population, and how new policies need to be implemented in efforts of shortening sentences or releasing some prisoners. Another reference the author makes is to Leon Neyfakh with regard to the topic

"The Redeemed Captive" is about an English family man named John Williams. One night a racially mixed group of thieves breaks into his house. The Thieves killed two of his children then brought him and the rest of the family along. They found themselves on a very long march among their neighbors, being taken towards Canada. The captors who the English refer to as masters were brutal to them injuring and usually killing those who could no longer March. When they arrive at a French community the French treated the Europeans very kindly while treating the Natives poorly. Finally they reached canada where the mayor took them in and they were safe again. Stories often use rhetorical appeals to further capture the audience's emotions or persuade

In Chapter 56, “The Fifth Day of Captivity”, Milady tells Felton a detailed lie about her past to convince him that she does not deserve imprisonment. She says to him, “One evening my enemy resolved to paralyze the resistance he could not conquer and mixed a powerful narcotic with my water,” (page 530), resulting in her losing control of her body and falling asleep. When Milady awoke she was in a beautiful room and her “...clothes were near [her] on a chair, but [she] could not remember undressing [herself] or going to bed,” (page 531). She could not escape the room she was in, but a man came to visit her that night. Milady would not sleep for fear of being harmed. She only ate what she believed could not be poisoned and drank only from a marble

Sharnecia, I agree with you that inmates should have the right to freedom of religion, but I have to disagree with you on the freedom of speech. I say that because, I have worked in a jail facility with inmates. There are certain things that I have seen in the jail facility that anyone should have the right to speak up on. Just look at it as you or one of your children, yes they are there for punishment, but at the end of the day they are still human. I am not saying letting the inmates take the freedom of speech to the point where they are running the facility, but they have feelings too and as well as thoughts. Just as they would out here in the free world. People fail to realize working in a jail facility difficultiness all depends on how

2014 was the worst year in the 37th year history of the lethal injection. That year four executions were reported as problematic. For example on the evening of July 23, 2014, Joseph Rudolph Wood III was killed at the Florence State Penitentiary in Arizona. Wood was first convicted in 1989. He awaited the day of his execution for over 15 years. The day finally came. The execution of Wood began at exactly 1:52 MST. His death was supposed to be fast, painless, and most importantly, instantaneous. This did not actually happen that day. What was supposed to be a ten minute procedure, lasted over two whole excruciating, agonizing, two hour, of his life. The “deadly” drug cocktail that was injected into his body that

“On Jan 7, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments challenging the lethal three-Drug cocktail used in most U.S executions. In a perfect world, perhaps, the government wouldn’t wait 30 years to determine whether an execution method makes sense” Von Drehle, D (2008). So many Americans are being sentenced to death, and we stand back and wonder how this can be happening. It happens because we have criminals and so we will continue to have crime, and instead of trying to figure out the who, what, where and why we would rather put them to death. The reasons to abolish the death penalty go on and on, what about the

For example, in California, a Los Angeles deputy public defender complained the death row was like “a college where nobody ever graduates, where they just keep building more dorms” (Galliher, Koch, & Wark 122). This bizarre analogy was generated because by 2009, California had on executed thirteen people over a thirty-one year period. According to this deputy’s calculation that meant “it would take 1,600 years to execute everybody on death row” (Galliher, Koch, & Wark 122). California is a state with a wide variety of cultures and many lawyers. As such, two-thirds of the death sentences were vacated by higher courts and as of 2011, many attorneys and activists in California claimed that the death penalty was just too costly to be feasible. Appeals could tie up a California case or decades because “most prosecutors and judges don’t have much experience with death penalty cases and don’t know what they are doing, and thus they make mistakes that are picked up on appeal” (Galliher, Koch, & Wark

White was shocked to hear that his execution date was drawing closer because White thought that he was in appeal process. Stevenson petition both the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court to delay White’s execution because his former attorney missed appeals and the failed to procedures (Death Penalty Information Center, 2015). Mr. White’s case is an example how important an adequate representation in a capital punishment trial is to the defendant’s

The second argument Lee makes involves not whether the cost of capital punishment is actually really huge, more than it costs to sentence someone to life without the possibility of parole, but as to why the cost is so high and what should be done about it. Abolitionists of capital punishment always cited as a reason to abolish it all together. But Lee notes that, “They prefer to ignore, however, the extent to which they themselves are responsible for the interminable legal maneuvers that run up the costs…” (144). Lee argues that the major causes of the high cost are the redundant, “endless” appeals, time-consuming delays, bizarre court rulings, and legal histrionics by defense attorneys, after the trial and conviction of the criminal (i.e. post-conviction proceedings). Lee provided several examples of cases that were delayed again and again for various reasons, many with the convicted on death row years before finally being executed. Willie Darden had already survived three death warrants, and had been scheduled to be electrocuted by the state of Florida in September of 1985 for a murder he was convicted of committing back in 1973. Darden’s defense attorney attempted to get the Supreme Court to stay his execution until a formal appeal could be filed, with a last-minute emergency appeal. The court voted against the stay, so his lawyer, attempted to get the court to technically transform his emergency appeal into a formal appeal.

“My mother was everything to me,” said Joseph Lucky, Debra Reese’s son. “[. . .] My family lived in the shadow of this event our entire lives.” Ledell Lee is scheduled to be executed for Debra’s murder. (AR Execution Recap) Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson has scheduled the executions of eight of Arkansas’ most heinous killers for April of 2017. These men have been convicted and sentenced to death by a jury of their peers and have exhausted the appeals process. These men have been on death row for one hundred eighty-seven years total. The victims’ families have been living the nightmare on average twenty-three years. It is time to give them closure and to carry out justice for all. After extensive research on these