Second Assigned Essay Term 1:Persuasive Essay- Capital Punishment

Length: 500 words, handwritten

Additional requirements: 3 outside sources;  3+ parenthetical citations

Capital punishment, or the death penalty, is a legal process whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime. The judicial decree that someone be punished in this manner is a death sentence, while the actual process of killing the person is an execution. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences.

Over the next two weeks you will learn how to evaluate online resources and how to use a persuasive essay map in order to craft an argument for, or against, capital punishment. You will use one inclass resource, 1 online resource that I will provide, and 1 resource you find on your own.