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    The document is a critical summary of an article that argues against the morality of capital punishment. The article presents arguments from supporters of the death penalty that it protects society from dangerous criminals, while opponents argue it is unjust and can lead to innocent deaths. The authors effectively use logic and emotion to strengthen their argument against capital punishment. They use statistics to show it is applied unfairly based on factors like race rather than the crime. The authors also appeal to emotions by saying the death penalty "cheapens the value of life."

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    The document is a critical summary of an article that argues against the morality of capital punishment. The article presents arguments from supporters of the death penalty that it protects society from dangerous criminals, while opponents argue it is unjust and can lead to innocent deaths. The authors effectively use logic and emotion to strengthen their argument against capital punishment. They use statistics to show it is applied unfairly based on factors like race rather than the crime. The authors also appeal to emotions by saying the death penalty "cheapens the value of life."

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    The document is a critical summary of an article that argues against the morality of capital punishment. The article presents arguments from supporters of the death penalty that it protects society from dangerous criminals, while opponents argue it is unjust and can lead to innocent deaths. The authors effectively use logic and emotion to strengthen their argument against capital punishment. They use statistics to show it is applied unfairly based on factors like race rather than the crime. The authors also appeal to emotions by saying the death penalty "cheapens the value of life."

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    Student: Farah Saifo

    Instructor: Zohirbek Asanshoev

    Date of submission: 23/02/2023

    Critical Summary

    In the text "Capital Punishment: Our Duty or Our Doom?" (2015) the authors Claire Andre

    and Manuel Velasquez argue against the morality of Capital punishment. The people who are

    supportive of death penalty defend their point that it is necessary to protect society from

    dangerous criminals, while opponents of capital punishment argue that it is unjust and can lead to

    the death of innocent people. It can have more impact on the individuals who are poor and

    belong to minorities. Ultimately, the article presents the question about whether capital

    punishment is our responsibility or our distraction. Therefore, in this work, I am going to be

    critically looking at how they effectively use logos and pathos to affect the audience and

    strengthen their argument.

    In this article, the authors use effectively logos and pathos to affect the readers. They use logos

    in an effective way to support their argument where they mention that the death penalty is often

    defended that it protects the safety of citizens by preventing criminals from killing again.

    However, the authors oppose this argument by pointing out that the death penalty is not a reliable

    solution. In fact, innocent people have been wrongly convicted of homicide and have been

    sentenced to death. This shows the flaws in the justice laws and suggests that the death penalty
    may not be an effective means of protecting society. The authors also use logos to argue that the

    death penalty is unjust. They mention statistics which indicate that in the U.S. in 1987, out of

    19,000 people only a small part who committed homicides were sentenced to death. That is an

    evidence that a small percentage of those who commit crimes are sentenced to death and that

    those who are sentenced to death are often poor and black. This shows that the death penalty is

    not applied fairly and that it can be influenced by facets such as race and social status, rather than

    the nature of the crime committed. The authors use pathos effectively when they argue that death

    penalty harms all of us by "cheapening the value of life." This way of using the appeal to

    emotion is to depict death penalty as being immoral and against humanity. Furthermore, the

    authors use strong and emotional language to evoke a sense of moral urgency. They use

    expressions such as "immorality of state-sanctioned killing" and "cheapening the value of life" to

    bring emotions of horror and disgust about the issue of capital punishment. All in all, in this

    article the authors used the appeals to logos and pathos successfully in order to support their

    argument against death penalty. They appeal to logic and reason by arguing that death penalty

    might not be the effective and just way to protect societies. They also use the appeal to emotion

    by stating that death penalty reduces the value of our life as humanity.

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