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    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.

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    He gets to the penalty area and is pushed a little rougher than usual. The ref calls the penalty. Now he’s up against Iker Casillas‚ the greatest goal keeper there ever was. His heart jumps to his throat and for a minute the stadium goes silent. He takes a few steps back and then quickly takes the penalty. His foot hits the ball and the crowd goes wild. Then everything turns black and John awakes in his bed in a tiny apartment in New York City. In America most kids dream to be a pro football player

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    Since 1976 there has been 1‚ 416 people killed by the death penalty. The death penalty for many people is a good thing‚ but to others they oppose. I for example‚ oppose because of my Christian background. Since I am from Mississippi I will tell about the history of my state using the death penalty. Beginning in 1817 going all the way to 1940‚ every execution there was in the state of Mississippi were always taken care of by hanging. The first time that the electric chair was ever used for execution

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    and rapes that happen throughout our country need proper sentences and this is where the death penalty comes in. Though there are many people for and against the penalty itself‚ I’m not here to discuss that. I’m here to discuss the argument of whether or not the death penalty should take the length of time that it usually does. As with most arguments‚ the death speed of the death penalty will have two sides‚ pro and con. I will not be biased in this writing and shall spend adequate amounts of time

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    Professor O Putting people to death‚ judged to have committed certain extremely heinous crimes‚ is a practice that’s been around for along time. In the later half of the twentieth century‚ it has become a controversial issue. As a supporter of the death penalty‚ I consider this to be a good thing for my country and its citizens. Capital punishment deters crime. Statistics prove consisted application of the death penalty deter crime. No executed murdered has ever killed again. For many years‚ Criminologists

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    One of Kevin’s cell mates was sentence to the death penalty because he was texting and driving. His mom text him and asked him “where r u” Kevin looked at his phone when he hit a guard rail that sent is car off the over pass killing his best friend on impact as they hit the ground. The judges saw it as murder and found the driver guilty. Kevin had a lot of time to think about things‚ like why the death penalty has changed over time. the death penalty has probably change over time because getting

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    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

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    going to be a harsh world. A just society requires the death penalty for the taking of a life. With that being said‚ my stand is to legalize the death penalty in attempt to decrease and or prevent heinous crimes‚ to decrease the costs of housing inmates with long sentences‚ and execution also provides a sense of closure for the families of victims of violent crimes. Don’t you think these depraved people need to be punished somehow? The death penalty attempts

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    Donalisa Hall Persuasive Speech Section 44 Chad Woolard The death penalty is an issue that has the United States quite divided. While there are many supporters of it‚ there is also a large amount of opposition. There are five different forms of execution in the United States: hanging‚ electrocution‚ lethal injection‚ lethal gas‚ and firing squad. All of these should be illegal. Capital punishment is defined as killing of someone for a crime. But also‚ murder is defined as killing one human being

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    Let the Punishment Fit the Crime The death penalty is a form of punishment used for convicted criminals who have committed a capital crime. Initially‚ the first established death penalty laws date as far back as the Eighteenth Century B.C. in the city-state of Babylon. The death penalty was used for about 25 different crimes stated in the Hammaurabi Code. By the Tenth Century A.D. Britain adopted this method as a usual punishment for many crimes. Eventually‚ when the colonies in the Americas were

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