Pro Death Penalty Persuasive Speech
It is October 1978 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Roger Stafford; his wife, Verna; and his brother, Harold entered the Sirloin Stockade restaurant and without any remorse or sympathy, brutally gunned down 6 people, 4 of them young teenagers.The gruesome scene depicted five bodie piled atop each other, their blood forming a slick pool that covered the floor and stained the surrounding boxes of ground beef patties and Wisconsin blue cheese.
That was not Staffords’ first killings, less than a month before this trio of cold-blooded killers fatally shot a North Dakota family of three. Verna Stafford first lured the family driving in their car, pretending to be a stranded motorist.
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Some are allowed to publish books while serving life sentences in prison. Many of these murderers brag about their sick crimes and some have even sent letters from prison to the victims families boasting how they enjoyed killing their loved one in gruesome detail. The family is forced to relive the crime again and again. The animals who committed a heinous crime of murder should not escape with lesser punishments and it is only logical to award him/her death penalty. Professor van den Haag, a psychoanalyst and adjunct professor at New
York University had this to say “I hold life sacred, …I feel that anyone who takes some one’s life should know that thereby he forsakes his own” (qtd. in prodeathpenalty.com) If these killers are given life sentences or in some cases lesser jail sentences, these animals could be set free to kill again. They are a danger to society as studies have shown that 10% of people convicted of murder will indeed murder again. The victim 's families and witnesses that may have testified in court live in fear of retaliation from the free murderer.Some prisoner 's who are serving life sentences for murder have even escaped from prison. For example, Michael
Rodriguez, sentenced only to life sentence for heinous murder, joined six other criminals in overpowering prison employees in Connolly, Texas in 2001.
The article claims that some sort of registry needs to be established. For instance, an abuser could ignore their restrictions after jail time, go to another state, and easily obtain more animals, since shelters have no notice of their past abuse. Also, abusing animals can be linked to many other crimes, such as crimes involving violence, drugs, and property, domestic violence, sex offenses, or even murder. For example, they discussed how after an investigation, serial killer, Jeffrey Dahmer, was found guilty of abusing animals, which led up to his vicious acts against humans.
A. Attention Getter: Thou shall not kill, only one of the ten commandments that some individuals unfortunately can not seem to uphold. What would the world look like if we did not have an “eye for an eye” mentality? The debate about whether or not capital punishment is ethical or immoral is significant because our country is spending unnecessary amounts on death penalty executions, in which citizens do not know enough about the subject matter to disagree or protest its use. While tax payers are paying for this procedure, the death penalty poses many moral insurrections.
Thank you for contacting Best Friends with your concerns. No-kill is about getting to the root of animal homelessness by implementing efficient and effective programs to save the lives of the more than 9,000 companion animals killed in America’s shelter every day.
However it can be argued that prison does not always deter criminals and that having a secure life with enough food, clothing and recreation in prison is not a sufficient punishment for criminals that deserve to die and that citizens should not have to pay to house murderers in prison. They also a some believe that when prisoners get released that the public are not safe from these criminals and could easily repeat the crime again, for example in an article it was said a rapist raped and beat 3 women, and was set to serve up to 25 years in prison, but due to "good behaviour" he gets out in 6 and a half years. Then within 5 months he strikes again, twice, and now he set to serve another 35 years, he needed the death penalty. Although of this unfortunate incident, the majority of people on death row have indeed committed horrible crimes, for the most part rape and murder. They obviously need to pay for these crimes, but I feel like life in prison is a fit punishment. If we as a society support putting people to death, we are essentially stooping to the level of the criminal. Punishing death with death is hypocritical.
Everything changes over time. The world faces new challenges, or it reinvents old ones as technology, business, and culture evolve. However, the core concepts that many of us hold dear, including freedom, remain the same.
On March 30th, 1853, “Fou-Roux” was born. The nickname “Fou-Roux” was given to Vincent van Gogh because he donned fiery red locks coupled with a series of mental illnesses and sexually transmitted diseases that earned him the nickname “Fou-Roux,” or Crazy Red. The Dutch born artist was born with his mother’s traditional peasant features and his father’s desire to enter the church. Van gogh longed to be apart of the church, but held back because he felt lowly and ugly and didn’t believe that a man like himself was worthy to approach God. Van gogh came from a family where there were art dealers. Theo van Gogh, Vincent’s younger brother, sought after a career in the family business of art dealing. van Gogh sought after several different careers
Thousands of people will attack the death penalty. They will give emotional speeches about the one innocent man or woman who might accidentally get an execution sentence. However, all of these people are forgetting one crucial element. They are forgetting the thousands of victims who die every year by the hands of heartless murderers. There are more murderers out there than people who are wrongly convicted, and that is what we must remember.
No one should be caged like an animal, animals shouldn’t either for that matter, but when someone violates/abuses another person’s rights; they deserve to have their rights taken away. To have your freedom taken away may be worse than death. At least in death you are free. If there were a better option, someone would have thought of it by now.
II. Second Main Point: The excessive cost of execution is also a reason for the death penalty to be abolished. To keep a man in prison for one 's whole life cost less than executing him. A state would save millions of dollars if they did away with death row and executions.
In today’s world, murderers aren’t a surprising thing, as long as they are fictional. Plenty of TV shows and movies have plot lines around murder, but what about real life? As Scott Bonn states in his writing, of the approximate 15,000 murders in the United States, only 1 percent are serial killings, amounting to about 150 victims per year, with between 25 and 50 serial killers active at any given time. There are plenty of statistics on serial killers. 1 in 20 had the same three characteristics as a child: bedwetting, fire setting, and torturing animals. Animal torture is a common indicator that the child will be violent in the future. Also, over 30 percent of murderers use killing as a way for their sexual arousal (Stone). A murderer
Capital Punishment is the lawful infliction of death and has been used in Britain since the 5the century. It was not until 1964 that capital punishment was abolished and this has been described by many historians as Britain's worst decision in over 500 years.
Should murderous animals be administered prison sentences or even…capital punishment? One method of preventing animals killing each other would be to provide animals with a vegetarian
Hello, everyone. My name is Devlin O’Connell and I am going to be speaking to you today about why I believe the death penalty should be abolished. There are three factors that I base this argument off which surround ethics, efficiency, and expenditure.
Capital punishment and the practice of the death penalty is an issue that is passionately debated in the United States. Opponents of the death penalty claim that capital punishment is unnecessary since a life sentence accomplishes the same objective. What death penalty opponents neglect to tell you is that convicted murders and child rapists escape from prison every year(List of prison escapes, 2015). As I write this essay, police are searching for two convicted murders who escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York on June 6th, 2015. The ONLY punishment from which one cannot escape is the death penalty.
A historical moment in United States history was shortly after the “so called,” “Boston Massacre. Many British soldiers were being accused of murder; but one Patriot, John Adams, who would one day become our second President, asserted that everyone deserves a fair trial. There was no killing. Only trials, observation, and questions. Our country states that everyone deserves the right to a trial, and not automatic death. The theory of capital punishment, or as most of you call it, the death penalty, is a violent way to sort out the criminals of an event. Capital punishment is a serious issue, and most of United States is on it. In fact, it is on the 2016 Presidential ballot, whether it should remain or be abolished. To inform people, capital punishment is a government practice where a person is put to death for a crime they committed. These capital offences are of serious issue, but should it really determine whether a person is allowed to live? No! I am an opponent for the death penalty being used anywhere in the world.