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Persuasive Essay
Introduction
Clarify each of the following areas:
• Death penalty
• I want to find out what method of execution is the best
• Your credibility
State the facts
Be unbiased. Order the facts from the least to the most dramatic.
Lethal Injection is the way that most states are using.
People have been killed by the death penalty for many years.
There are many way that a person many be put to death.
Give brief outline of argument to follow
For example, "Given these facts, I will demonstrate how/why . . ."
I will tell how many states that have the lethal injection. I will also tell you why they are using it.
I will tell you what some of the ways to be killed.
I will tell you how long the death penalty has been around.
Tell why argument is reasonable
Use simple reasoning to demonstrate your thinking to the audience.
I think that many states are using the lethal injection because I think that it is the most moral for the people doing the execution.
I think that they had different ways to kill a person because they did not have the same technology that we have so the had do work with what they had at the time.
I think that the death penalty has been around because people thought that it would be better to put a person to death instead of life in jail.
Address arguments of the other side
One by one show why opposing arguments are not reasonable, logical, etc.
Some people think that it is bad to kill a person with the lethal injection and that it is the least moral thing to do. Well if they think that it is not moral they should look at the electric chair and the firing squad. They cause a lot of pain and it is ugly to look at. The lethal injection first knocks the person out and then starts to kill them and you do not see the person going scary with electricity going thought them.
Summarize your argument
Show the audience why your arguments are right and just. Often it's effective to end this section with an appropriate quotation.
