Sources On Death Penalty

Annotated Bibliography

Bazelon, E. (2015). Too Harsh. New York Times Magazine, 13–16.

In this scholarly article Bazelon goes on to explain the both sides of capital punishment and life in prison. He wrote this article because of the rise of arguments about mass incarceration. Bazelon also talks about how immigration plays a key to the mass incarceration and how these immigrants get sent on death row because of the crimes they have committed. This source is going to help me on my paper because they are comparing and contrasting capital punishment with life in prison. With arguments going on both sides I am going to be able to see the different views of what people think.

Capital Punishment. (2016). Retrieved March 13, 2016, from https://www.aclu.org/issues/capital-punishment#current

This website is an organization run by ACLU. In this website you will find a bunch of different facts and information on the death penalty. You will find information on the background of this topic and how it all started. Also, there is information on the topic of mental illness and death penalty. This source is going to help me back up my claim on how it is illegal to send those with mental illness to the death penalty. I am going to be able t use this source to show me the different types of executions it provides and how much it cost per execution. This source is also up to date so the information on there is accurate.

Death Penalty Information Center. (2016, March 11). Retrieved March 13, 2016.

This website is another organization that provides statistics on the death penalty. This source is up to date from two days ago so the information has to be accurate. In this source you will be able to find the number of people who have been executed since the start of the death penalty. In addition, provides stats on the ethnicity of the people who have got executed. I am going to use this source to provide statistic to improve my logos. Also, using this statistic will paint a picture for the reader when they are reading my research paper.

Hang them all?. (2014). Economist, 411(8885), 45.

In this article Kairo wrote, in the “Economist,” of an incident that occurred. Judge Said Yusuf sent 529 men to death row after a murder of a police officer in March 2014. In late April he charged 600+ more men in a separate case. Kairo later went on to explain that just 37 men were left in death row. This source is going to help me because it will help support the claim I made about that the death penalty is used in most cases for revenge. Using this example shows strong evidence on that and explains why people want to get rid of capital punishment.

Top 10 Pros and Cons — Death Penalty — ProCon.org. (2009, April 13). Retrieved March 13, 2016, from http://deathpenalty.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=002000

In this website I used the pros and cons of having the death penalty. This online organization has many details of capital punishment. Not only that but has the top 10 pros and cons that people argue about on this topic and uses quotes used in court cases as well. This source is going to be very helpful for me because it is going to allow me to see how each side benefits of having the death penalty or not. In addition, with this source using quotes from cases, I will be able to look up these case and find out more about them. I can then compare and contrast what the person who got convicted did to get on death row. (610)