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Outline for Synthesis Essay: The Death Penalty Thesis: The death penalty is a severe punishment that should only be administered when it is truly deserved in cases that are cautiously inspected. I.

Many believe that a capital punishment is extremely harsh or incorrect since it may set a negative example in the community. A. “Some Americans believe in the death penalty because the victims deserve it, yet Byrd’s son’s opposition to Brewer’s execution exposes this dubious rationale.” B. State Rep. Terry Blair who is a Republican and a foe of abortion, declared “I don’t think we have any business in taking another person’s life, even for what we call a legal purpose or what we might refer to as a justified purpose.” (Source C) C. A group of former corrections officials who were against Troy Davis’s execution said,” Should our justice system be causing so much harm to so many people when there is an alternative?” (Source C)

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Yet every action has its consequences and who ever made the decision to commit an unforgiveable act must receive a punishment. A. ‘’If capital punishment disappears in the United States, it won’t be because voters and politicians no longer want to execute the guilty.” (Source B) B. ‘’Brewer made no bones about the fact that he was one of three supremacists who kidnapped James Byrd because he was black and dragged him for two miles behind their pickup truck” (Source A) C. “Abolishing capital punishment in a kind of despair over its fallibility would send a very different message. It would tell the public that our laws and courts and juries

are fundamentally incapable of delivering what most Americans consider genuine justice.” III.

However, before capital punishment is administered there should be enough proofs and reliable testimonies that can fully condemn someone to the death penalty. A. “He went to his death still proclaiming his innocence of the 1989 murder of Savannah Ga., police officer.” B. “But one day, too late for Troy Davis, too late for too many, truth will come out. Godspeed that day the cards come tumbling down.”...