Death and Justice: How Capital Punishment
Affirms Life
I can both agree and dissagree with Edward Kochs opinions in his essay called Death and Justice: How Capital Punishment Affirms Life. well-nigh of the arguments that he has presented seemed valid, however, he didnt supply enough facts to back up what he was saying for m any of his examples. It seemed to me that most of what Edward Koch was saying had more(prenominal) to do with his own opinion on capital penalisation than on any type of reasearch he has done on the topic.
In one part of his argument he states, No new(prenominal) major democracy - in fact, few other countries of any description - are plagued by a bump off calculate such as that in the United States. (Koch 196). He does go on to provide the reader with some statistics on how the murder rate in our country has increased over a period of years. But he is not quoting from any sources to prove his point. On this point, Im not sure if I do or dont agree with Mr. Koch. I dont know first hand if those statistics were spotless or not. They may have been, but since hes not quoting from anything, I am still not any further ameliorate on this subject then I was when I began drill it.
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Koch also tries to enlist the Bible as an ally for the oddment penalty; however, once again, he does not provide us with any information or quotes to back him up. The best that he came up with was, The biblical viewpoint has been upheld by philosophers throughout score (Koch 197). He does go on to name some great thinkers, but he never proves what they supposedly said or why they said it. He names...
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