A Summary on Death Penalty
Persuasive Speech
Ariel Larson
COM 101-4006
Death Penalty
Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience that the death penalty should be nationally legal.
Central Ideas: Share the benefits of death penalty by explaining some of the basics, providing you with some statistics, sharing stories with you of some people who have been executed, argue the biggest conflicts affecting this debate, and explain how executions are punishment and a safety precaution.
Introduction
I. A family of four returns home after spending time on vacation together. The family walks into their house and is welcomed home with a gun in their faces. The father and the two boys are beaten and shot and the mother is tied up, beaten, raped, and then, too, murdered. When the man who murdered this family was captured by local police, the public found out that he had already served 15 years of a life sentence after killing his own half-brother. Though many citizens wanted this man to be executed, it was not legal because there is no death penalty in North Dakota. Instead, tax payers and spending their money to keep this man alive with a firm roof over his head and three meals a day in a prison. II. The issue of a death penalty is argued nation-wide, even world-wide today. III. After all my research I, too, have come to the conclusion that there should a death penalty throughout the entirety of our country. IV. Today I would like to share with you the benefits of death penalty by explaining some of the basics, providing you with some statistics, sharing stories with you of some people who have been executed, argue the biggest conflicts affecting this debate, explain how executions are punishment and a safety precaution, and tell you what you can do to make a difference.
Body I. BASICS: First you must understand some basics about the death penalty. A. Another name for the death penalty is capital punishment. B. The death penalty has been used as a means of
Ariel Larson
COM 101-4006
Death Penalty
Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience that the death penalty should be nationally legal.
Central Ideas: Share the benefits of death penalty by explaining some of the basics, providing you with some statistics, sharing stories with you of some people who have been executed, argue the biggest conflicts affecting this debate, and explain how executions are punishment and a safety precaution.
Introduction
I. A family of four returns home after spending time on vacation together. The family walks into their house and is welcomed home with a gun in their faces. The father and the two boys are beaten and shot and the mother is tied up, beaten, raped, and then, too, murdered. When the man who murdered this family was captured by local police, the public found out that he had already served 15 years of a life sentence after killing his own half-brother. Though many citizens wanted this man to be executed, it was not legal because there is no death penalty in North Dakota. Instead, tax payers and spending their money to keep this man alive with a firm roof over his head and three meals a day in a prison. II. The issue of a death penalty is argued nation-wide, even world-wide today. III. After all my research I, too, have come to the conclusion that there should a death penalty throughout the entirety of our country. IV. Today I would like to share with you the benefits of death penalty by explaining some of the basics, providing you with some statistics, sharing stories with you of some people who have been executed, argue the biggest conflicts affecting this debate, explain how executions are punishment and a safety precaution, and tell you what you can do to make a difference.
Body I. BASICS: First you must understand some basics about the death penalty. A. Another name for the death penalty is capital punishment. B. The death penalty has been used as a means of
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