In Amber Young’s article “Capital Punishment: Society’s Self-Defense” Young describes why capital punishment is needed and gives examples along with counter-arguments as to why. In the first section Young states that capital punishment was the only thing that kept Ted Bundy from killing young women. Before he died Bundy was kept in a jails in the northern part of the United States where he escaped from twice and went on a murdering rampage and escaped into Florida. When he reached Florida however, the punishment he received was capital punishment and he never killed again. Later on in “Capital Punishment: Society’s Self-Defense” Young discusses why there may be individuals against the death penalty, however she then goes and gives reasoning
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The majority of the article is used for Young to give a few examples as to why someone would be against the death penalty, but she then goes on to counter the arguments and provide reasoning as to how they are inconsequential. She spends the majority of the time rebutting issues such as innocent-death which she says is highly unlikely because our court system is setup to prevent things like that from happening, cruel and unusual punishment where she rebuts with how diabetics and cancer patients have needles poked into them everyday and how it’s hardly cruel or unusual, along with life in prison which she says most prisoners would not prefer, and finally the reduction of murder rate, which she states that though there is no sign of a reduction it prevents those who undergo capital punishment it will prevent them from killing again, in order to further her point. The majority of her rebuttals are sound and well supported, however the one related to the reduction of murder rate can be somewhat hazy because, she says though there is not proof, Bundy will certainly not kill anymore it’s not a very legitimate stance. Young pulled in the audience with the story of Ted Bundy and why he underwent capital punishment for what he did to all those young women, and now she is trying to encourage the audience to believe her point of view about capital
The majority of the article is used for Young to give a few examples as to why someone would be against the death penalty, but she then goes on to counter the arguments and provide reasoning as to how they are inconsequential. She spends the majority of the time rebutting issues such as innocent-death which she says is highly unlikely because our court system is setup to prevent things like that from happening, cruel and unusual punishment where she rebuts with how diabetics and cancer patients have needles poked into them everyday and how it’s hardly cruel or unusual, along with life in prison which she says most prisoners would not prefer, and finally the reduction of murder rate, which she states that though there is no sign of a reduction it prevents those who undergo capital punishment it will prevent them from killing again, in order to further her point. The majority of her rebuttals are sound and well supported, however the one related to the reduction of murder rate can be somewhat hazy because, she says though there is not proof, Bundy will certainly not kill anymore it’s not a very legitimate stance. Young pulled in the audience with the story of Ted Bundy and why he underwent capital punishment for what he did to all those young women, and now she is trying to encourage the audience to believe her point of view about capital