Persuasive Speech: A Speech On Capital Punishment

Good morning class (SMILE). We often hear about crimes, like murder cases, committed in our area through (count) the news, social media, and online. But, has it ever occurred to you that there are people who have been released from prison for heinous cases like murder and are currently walking around the very streets you do? The realization is a chilling one, but it can be addressed with the issuing of capital punishment, also known as the death penalty. The death penalty has been proven to have significant benefits like being a deterrent for crime, it can address the issue of overcrowding in the prison system, and gives closure to families of the victims. It has also made technological advances allowing for justice to be served better. Capital punishment is a just fit for those who have committed crimes of high degree like murder. One of society’s main questions today is how can we lower the rates of these heinous crimes in our country. The answer is giving them the highest consequence for their crime: death. Although people have argued that issuing the death penalty does not deter crime, there is a significant amount of evidence to prove it HAS lowered crimes such as murder. According to Naci Mocan’s study, a professor at the University of Colorado Denver,

This is clearly shown in Brooks Douglass’ case. Brooks Douglass is an Oklahoma senator who had to face the realities of murder and rape, two of the most atrocious crimes. When he was a teenager, “two men barged into his home, took his family hostage, raped his sister and killed his parents in front of him” (CNN). When he finally become a state senator for Oklahoma he wrote the legislation that gave him the right to watch one of these men, Steven Hatch, die. On an interview with CNN Douglass said “that seeing [Hatch] executed brought him a sense of