The piece written by George Ryan struck my interest. Considering, I plan to argue against the death penalty this speech presented me with ideas to aid my argument. However, before I talk about the Ryan speech, I will talk about how the discussion in class aided in my understanding of how to approach my argument. One argument Professor Dullea addressed was the murdering innocent people argument. It was discussed that we spend so much time and money, so there is the proper things occurring to prevent the death of innocent people. I flipped this argument. I thought about using the argument with the idea that we do all of these things, but there are still innocent people being murdered. If all of this occurs, and we can not catch the right guy,
