From a young age we are taught
the clichés "Let the punishment fit the crime" and also "Give a
person a taste of his own medicine", however many believe that when it
comes to the death penalty, nobody should ever truly deserve to die. In Robert
Blecker's essay "With Death Penalty, Let the Punishment Truly Fit the
Crime", he writes about a possible alternative for the death penalty to
replace the current method which is lethal injection.
Robert Blecker is a
professor at New York Law School, where he teaches criminal and constitutional law;
therefore he specializes in this category regarding the death penalty and has
credentials in this field. This article was written on August 22, 2013, thus
the context is this past summer because there has been a recent increase of “abolitionists”
who are petitioning the current method of the death penalty. Due to the fact
that pharmaceutical companies have stopped shipping the deadly vaccinations to
criminal facilities, Blecker and abolitionists from throughout the United
States have started to think of alternatives for the death penalty and
hopefully make it more constitutional.
Blecker’s purpose of the article
is to create awareness of the unjust methods of the death penalty, and to give
options or ideas to create a way to execute our worst criminals in a way that
is not regarding medication. Blecker believes, as do many others, that
medication is a way to improve a sick human body, not kill a healthy one; thus
he offers options such as a firing squad, that is civil yet not through the use
of medication.
Blecker’s audience can be any American citizen, mostly because
in order to change the government’s methods it will require a movement by the
people, which will begin with informing the general public of why Blecker’s
ideas are ones to believe. I do believe that Blecker achieved his purpose through the
use of ethos because his credentials relating to the topic of the death penalty attracts the reader to his side of the argument, ultimately allowing him to achieve his purpose.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/22/opinion/blecker-death-penalty/index.html
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