John Wilkes Booth's Argumentative Analysis

There are always new challenges to come every few years or so. For instance, women didn’t get the right to vote until 1920. On down the line slavery ended with the help of president Abraham Lincoln in the year of 1865. Everyone is fighting for some rights or cause in this world, but women have to fight for so much more of not being judged by what role we are supposed to carry out in a family environment and working economy. Even when it comes to criminal punishment, we struggle by the hand’s of men’s decisions. This is why women believe the death penalty for them have a gender bias agenda. The things is we don’t know what people go through everyday and why they are provoked to these actions. Investigation methods are formed for “ ameliorating …show more content…
is Mary Surratt. She and other individuals were involved in John Wilkes Booth’s “elaborate plot to completely disrupt the union government by killing President Abraham Lincoln, Vice President Andrew Johnson, and Secretary of State William Seward.” (Blattman p. 1) It was believed that Mary Surratt was the main person behind the plot, but I think she had no choice in the matter. Her sons were in battles and feeding information back to Booth, so maybe she just wanted to protect them more than herself. So once again, a higher powered man judged her fate and was hung with the others for their crimes. The last statement before she instantly died was “I wish to say to the people that I am innocent.” (Blattman, p. 3 of 4) It seems that not only killing men isn’t enough, but that they have to kill women as well. This might lead to everyone, including ostensibly neutral judges as well to feel outraged, and called for especially harsh “justice that isn’t just.” (Hudson p. 1 of 3) In my opinion, America is a sexist country because of the systems that has been formed. When capital punishment was reinstated in 1997, only 11 of 1, 224 people executed have been “women”. (Hudson p. 2 0f 3) Women’s lives matter just as much as