James Rhodes is the man who walked into the cell phone store and murdered Shelby
Farah. He admitted …show more content…
5). In the United States, the thirty remaining states still have the death penalty. In the case of Rhodes, Florida is one of the thirty remaining states. The author of this article, Bazelon, followed this case for awhile. She does not believe the death penalty should be around. This case still has not resulted in the death penalty or not. The mother and the brother of Farah are divided.
The brother is for the death penalty, while the mother is undecided. Bazelon uses this story to prove that in her opinion, that the death penalty has no significance in today’s world.
The death penalty is widely known to be the worst of the worst when it comes to the sentence on a case. In the article, Caplan uses Connecticut as the prime example of the death penalty being unconstitutional. Caplan (2015) says, “The death penalty now fails to satisfy any legitimate penological purpose” (para. 2). Connecticut supreme court ruled back in 2015, that the death penalty wasn 't necessary in the state. This is just one of the twenty states that have done away with the death penalty. The court did not find that in any way that the death penalty is moral, or necessary. Caplan, the author of the article uses this argument to prove the …show more content…
This statistic is just one example that Liptak uses to show that the death penalty in a way is beneficial. He believes that if the penalty of death is around, that it could lead to dip in crimes.
Also Liptak (2007) says, “In 2003, for instance, there were more than 16,000 homicides, but only
153 death sentences and 65 executions” (para. 26). Liptak uses this statistic to prove that the death penalty did not stop very many crimes. But as years went on, crimes went down to the growing number of death penalty’s per year. The statistic used above, 3 of 18 crimes are prevented knowing the death penalty is a possible consequence. In the article, Liptak uses facts from the two sides to show the reader the positives and the negatives to the death penalty.
The Editorial board are composed of sixteen different authors, and the article they covered was that they believe prosecutors are out to kill. The authors even slimmed down a list to only five prosecutors who they believe are those aiming to kill. The authors (2016) said,
“These men are members of a very small club: five prosecutors who together are responsible for one of every seven death-row inmates nationwide” (para. 2). The authors pulled these facts