Capital Punishment The purpose of this speech is to inform the audience of the cruelty of death and that imprisonment alone should be a great enough punishment. 1. The main attention getter is an imagination that I am going to create for the audience so they can imagine the living quarters of an actual prisoner. 2. With evidence such as innocent people being executed and factual evidence that the death penalty does not deter people from committing …showed first 75 words of 780 total…

…showed last 75 words of 780 total…can help you as an individual make a difference in our society. Works Cited 1)'Simply Living' Vol.4 No.4 1989, 'The Green Pages: Amnesty International, Campaign to abolish the death penalty' 2) Encyclopaedia Britannica, Britannica center, Instant Research service, 'The debate over capital punishment', 'Arguments for abolition of death penalty' 3) Time, January 24, 1983, 'An Eye for an Eye' 4) Lamar, Jacob V. 'I Deserve Punishment.' Time. February 1989: 34 5) The Holy Bible 6) Bureau of Justice Statistics, "National Corrections Reporting Program", February 1994