Introduction background to controversy: Death penalty debate in America -- Section one: Opposing viewpoints on the death penalty: Viewpoint one: Death penalty should be abolished / Bill Kurtis -- Viewpoint two: Death penalty should be retained / Paul Rosenzweig -- Viewpoint three: Death penalty prevents murder / Jeff Jacoby -- Viewpoint four: Death penalty increases murder / Frederick C. Millett -- Viewpoint five: Death penalty helps relatives of murder victims / Gail B. Stewart -- Viewpoint six: Death penalty hurts relatives of murder victims / Pat Bane -- Viewpoint seven: Death penalty is inhumane / Robert Murray -- Viewpoint eight: Sparing murderers the death penalty is inhumane / Wesley Lowe -- Section two: Model essays and writing exercises: Preface: Using cause and effect in the five-paragraph essay -- Essay one: Capital punishment's application is arbitrary and unfair -- Exercise one: Create an outline from an existing essay -- Essay two: Capital punishment helps society -- Exercise two: Create an outline for an opposing persuasive essay -- Essay three: Governor concludes that the death penalty is unfair -- Exercise three: Evaluating and writing introductory and concluding paragraphs -- Exercise four: Writing a cause-and-effect five-paragraph essay -- Section three: Supporting research material.
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