2. A piece written by Sean McElwee on the Huffington Post, he takes a position of the death penalty being abolished or not. Sean states, “The United States needs to abolish the death penalty. It's archaic, costly, ineffective, and most importantly, unjust.” (Quotation from the Huffington Post online, no page number)
3. On the website Death Penalty Focus they have written 10 facts about working for alternatives to the death penalty. The writers state that there are many reasons that the death penalty should be abolished give examples of better and more effective ways of treating the prisoners. (Paraphrase from deathpenalty.org, no page numbers)
4.(From online, Washington Post, no page numbers)
According to Pope Francis, the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church that was elected in March of 2013, told the congress and announced at a meeting that, “I am convinced that this way is the best, since every life is sacred, every human person is endowed with an inalienable dignity, and society can only benefit from the rehabilitation of those convicted of crimes.” Pope Francis has called for an eradication of the death penalty before and “spoke out strongly against capital punishment, calling the practice “inhumane” and “unacceptable” regardless of the crime.
Works Cited
Sean, McElwee “It’s Time to Abolish the Death Penalty” Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, n.d. Web 8 July 2013
“Death Penalty Focus: Facts” Death Penalty Focus : Facts n.d. Web 31 May 2013
Berman, Mark. "Pope Francis Tells Congress ‘every Life Is Sacred,’ Says the Death Penalty Should Be Abolished." Washington Post. The Washington Post, 24 Sept. 2015. Web. 19 Nov. 2015.
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