Capital Punishment

Does An Eye For An Eye Still Have A Place In Society?
Purpose: To persuade the audience that Capital Punishment has a place in today's society.
General Objective: Persuasive
Intro: Imagine that someone kidnapped your child and then killed them. What would you want to do to that person? Most would answer kill them. In fact in 2000, 58% of the population agreed that if someone was convicted of murdering a child then they should be put to death. Capital Punishment is defined by Encarta as, "the legal infliction of death as a penalty for violating criminal law." Methods of execution have inclu…