An Outline Of Persuasive Speech On Death Penalty
CST 100
Sample Speech 4 Outline
Fact/Value Persuasion
Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience that Death Penalty should be legal
Introduction
I. [Opening Device] There has been a murderer.
II. [Credibility] According to Wikipedia thee are 170,000 inmates incarcerated for murder in the United States. (Wikipedia.org)
[Bridge/Link] Let me ask you this: what would you do if you just heard this verdict? Think about it. What if your loved one had been murdered and all they received was ten years.? Do you see where I’m headed with this? Why did have to happen?
III. [Thesis] Today I hope persuade you that the Death penalty should be legalized. First I will persuade you by showing how it help deter one from committing …show more content…
severe crimes, then I’ll show how taxpayers would not have to support criminals living conditions, and finally I hope to persuade you by proving that it will help bring retribution and criminals will not be able to commit crime again.
Body First let me tell you about how it will deter one from committing severe crimes. . www.balancedpolitics.org
If America was to conduct more death penalties we would see a tremendous reduction in crime.
Bruce Fein, JD, General Counsel for the Center for Law and Accountability, in an American Bar Association website article titled "Individual Rights and Responsability - The Death Penalty, But Sparingly" (accessed June 17, 2008), offered the following:
"Abolitionists may contend that the death penalty is inherently immoral because governments should never take human life, no matter what the provocation. But that is an article of faith, not of fact, just like the opposite position held by abolitionist detractors, including myself... The death penalty honors human dignity by treating the defendant as a free moral actor able to control his own destiny for good or for ill; it does not treat him as an animal with no moral sense, and thus subject even to butchery to satiate human gluttony. Moreover, capital punishment celebrates the dignity of the humans whose lives were ended by the defendant 's predation." www.procon.org If murderers saw more executions on tv and on the news, this would deter them from wanting to commit murder because they know they would be punished by death.
George W. Bush, MBA, 43rd President of the United States, in a June 23, 2000 CNN.com article "Bush Death Penalty Stance Could Be Campaign Issue," wrote the following:
"I’m going to uphold the law of the land and let the political consequences be what they may. If it costs me politically, it costs me politically... No case is an easy case... I also keep in mind the victims, and the reason I support the death penalty is because it saves lives. That’s why I support it, and the people of my state support it too."
(www.procon.org )
(Transition: Now that I have shown how it will deter criminals from committing severe crimes let me persuade you why taxpayers should not have to support criminals living conditions . )
I. Now let me prove why taxpayers would not have to support criminals living conditions.
A. Instituting the death penalty would help us save money
1. We would see overpopulated prisons decrease and save billons of taxpayers dollars(www.debate.org)
2. We could provide Medicare for our senior citizens, computers and Notebooks for our children’s education.
(www.library.thinkquest.org)
IV. (Transition: Now finally I hope to persuade you by proving that it will help bring retribution and criminals will not be able to commit crime again.)
II. Promoting the death penalty would help bring retribution.
A. The prisoner is made to suffer for the offence. (www.procon.org)
B. Families are able to heal from the loss of a love one. (www.biblebelievers.com)
C. Criminals are not afforded the chance to commit crime again
. (www.balancedpolitics.org)
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.
.
Conclusion
I. In conclusion I hope persuade you that the Death penalty should be legalized. First I will persuade you by showing how it help deter one from committing severe crimes, then I’ll show how taxpayers would not have to support criminals living conditions, and finally I hope to persuade you by proving that it will help bring retribution and criminals will not be able to commit crime again.
Thank you for your time.
Work Cited
1. (www.procon.org) 2. (Wikipedia.org) 3. (www.library.thinkquest.org) 4. www.balancedpolitics.org
Sample Speech 4 Outline
Fact/Value Persuasion
Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience that Death Penalty should be legal
Introduction
I. [Opening Device] There has been a murderer.
II. [Credibility] According to Wikipedia thee are 170,000 inmates incarcerated for murder in the United States. (Wikipedia.org)
[Bridge/Link] Let me ask you this: what would you do if you just heard this verdict? Think about it. What if your loved one had been murdered and all they received was ten years.? Do you see where I’m headed with this? Why did have to happen?
III. [Thesis] Today I hope persuade you that the Death penalty should be legalized. First I will persuade you by showing how it help deter one from committing …show more content…
severe crimes, then I’ll show how taxpayers would not have to support criminals living conditions, and finally I hope to persuade you by proving that it will help bring retribution and criminals will not be able to commit crime again.
Body First let me tell you about how it will deter one from committing severe crimes. . www.balancedpolitics.org
If America was to conduct more death penalties we would see a tremendous reduction in crime.
Bruce Fein, JD, General Counsel for the Center for Law and Accountability, in an American Bar Association website article titled "Individual Rights and Responsability - The Death Penalty, But Sparingly" (accessed June 17, 2008), offered the following:
"Abolitionists may contend that the death penalty is inherently immoral because governments should never take human life, no matter what the provocation. But that is an article of faith, not of fact, just like the opposite position held by abolitionist detractors, including myself... The death penalty honors human dignity by treating the defendant as a free moral actor able to control his own destiny for good or for ill; it does not treat him as an animal with no moral sense, and thus subject even to butchery to satiate human gluttony. Moreover, capital punishment celebrates the dignity of the humans whose lives were ended by the defendant 's predation." www.procon.org If murderers saw more executions on tv and on the news, this would deter them from wanting to commit murder because they know they would be punished by death.
George W. Bush, MBA, 43rd President of the United States, in a June 23, 2000 CNN.com article "Bush Death Penalty Stance Could Be Campaign Issue," wrote the following:
"I’m going to uphold the law of the land and let the political consequences be what they may. If it costs me politically, it costs me politically... No case is an easy case... I also keep in mind the victims, and the reason I support the death penalty is because it saves lives. That’s why I support it, and the people of my state support it too."
(www.procon.org )
(Transition: Now that I have shown how it will deter criminals from committing severe crimes let me persuade you why taxpayers should not have to support criminals living conditions . )
I. Now let me prove why taxpayers would not have to support criminals living conditions.
A. Instituting the death penalty would help us save money
1. We would see overpopulated prisons decrease and save billons of taxpayers dollars(www.debate.org)
2. We could provide Medicare for our senior citizens, computers and Notebooks for our children’s education.
(www.library.thinkquest.org)
IV. (Transition: Now finally I hope to persuade you by proving that it will help bring retribution and criminals will not be able to commit crime again.)
II. Promoting the death penalty would help bring retribution.
A. The prisoner is made to suffer for the offence. (www.procon.org)
B. Families are able to heal from the loss of a love one. (www.biblebelievers.com)
C. Criminals are not afforded the chance to commit crime again
. (www.balancedpolitics.org)
.
.
.
Conclusion
I. In conclusion I hope persuade you that the Death penalty should be legalized. First I will persuade you by showing how it help deter one from committing severe crimes, then I’ll show how taxpayers would not have to support criminals living conditions, and finally I hope to persuade you by proving that it will help bring retribution and criminals will not be able to commit crime again.
Thank you for your time.
Work Cited
1. (www.procon.org) 2. (Wikipedia.org) 3. (www.library.thinkquest.org) 4. www.balancedpolitics.org