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"Many States Have the Death Penalty, but Few Use it Regularly." Tribune Content Agency Graphics, 2018. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, link.gale.com/apps/doc/EQSBQQ336328400/OVIC?u=cobb90289&sid=bookmark-OVIC&xid=5a9430a5. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.

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"Many States Have the Death Penalty, but Few Use it Regularly." Tribune Content Agency Graphics, 2018. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, link.gale.com/apps/doc/EQSBQQ336328400/OVIC?u=cobb90289&sid=bookmark-OVIC&xid=5a9430a5. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.

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The purpose of this graphic is to show how much the death penalty is used within America. This graphic describes the comparison between how many US states allow the death penalty with the frequency of how much the death penalty is actually used within a certain number of years. The intended audience are Americans. The rhetorical appeal that was used in this source was logos and was effective because it has appealed to a person's own logic to visually see how much the death penalty is applied in America. This source clarifies that the death penalty should be abolished because by the graphic showing how little the death penalty is implemented on Americans. This source can clarify that this punishment shouldn't be used anymore. One defect about this source is that it was made in 2018, so the information could be different in our current year. This is graphic is useful.

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Dieter, Richard C. "The Death Penalty Is Too Costly for Society." Death Penalty, edited by Noël Merino, Greenhaven Press, 2015. Current Controversies. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, link.gale.com/apps/doc/EJ3010955216/OVIC?u=cobb90289&sid=bookmark-OVIC&xid=8e9b66a1. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025. Originally published as "Testimony of Richard C. Dieter, Executive Director, Death Penalty Information Center," 2013.

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Dieter, Richard C. "The Death Penalty Is Too Costly for Society." Death Penalty, edited by Noël Merino, Greenhaven Press, 2015. Current Controversies. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, link.gale.com/apps/doc/EJ3010955216/OVIC?u=cobb90289&sid=bookmark-OVIC&xid=8e9b66a1. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025. Originally published as "Testimony of Richard C. Dieter, Executive Director, Death Penalty Information Center," 2013.

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The purpose of this source is to examine how much the death penalty costs. This article describes how much money it costs for only 15% of people to actually be killed on death row. It goes further in depth about how long it takes for someone to go onto death row and shows how that money adds up to be more expensive than it would be if they just put them in prison for life. This article is also written to serve as a testimony to testify the writer's knowledge to prove how expensive the death penalty is. His testimony was given to the Nebraska Judiciary Committee. The rhetorical appeal used in Dieter's testimony was logos. This appeal was effective because it simply shows in logical information how the death penalty negatively effects the costs of capital cases because of how costly they are to carry out. This article doesn't show much bias or weakness because Richard C. Dieter, being a part of the Death Penalty Information Center, is just stating facts about the death penalty, none of winch go one way or another. Dieter's testimony further clarifies that the death penalty should be abolished because it clearly shows how cost effective it is to carry out a death penalty case. This article is useful and relevant because of how much the information applies to the abolishment of the death penalty.

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Heinze, Eric. "Why the Death Penalty Is Incompatible with Democracy." Gale Opposing Viewpoints Online Collection, Gale, 2025. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, link.gale.com/apps/doc/FBFSUL707325303/OVIC?u=cobb90289&sid=bookmark-OVIC&xid=a9bd15ae. Accessed 17 Mar. 2025. Originally published as "Why the death penalty is incompatible with democracy," The Conversation, 26 Jan. 2024.

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Heinze, Eric. "Why the Death Penalty Is Incompatible with Democracy." Gale Opposing Viewpoints Online Collection, Gale, 2025. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, link.gale.com/apps/doc/FBFSUL707325303/OVIC?u=cobb90289&sid=bookmark-OVIC&xid=a9bd15ae. Accessed 17 Mar. 2025. Originally published as "Why the death penalty is incompatible with democracy," The Conversation, 26 Jan. 2024.

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The purpose of this article was to state how Eric Heinze felt that the death penalty does not align with democratic ideals. In this article Heinze goes deep into how the death penalty takes away democratic ideals like freedom of speech and how the government cannot deprive a citizen of their right to chose. The intended audience of this article was Eric Heinze's students at the Queen Mary University of London. The rhetorical appeal used in this was Pathos which was effective because the way Heinze made the reader feel empathetic towards Kenneth Smith, who was a convicted murder executed painfully on death row, and that would persuade the reader to go against that form of punishment. This source defines why the death penalty should be abolished because of how it go against the democracy our country thrives on. This source would be bias because Heinze is favoring a specific side which would favor with his opinion. This article is useful.

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Lesniak, Raymond. "Justice Is Not Served with the Death Penalty." The Death Penalty, edited by Jenny Cromie and Lynn M. Zott, Greenhaven Press, 2013. Opposing Viewpoints. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, link.gale.com/apps/doc/EJ3010124275/OVIC?u=cobb90289&sid=bookmark-OVIC&xid=0d127cab. Accessed 17 Mar. 2025. Originally published as "The Road to Justice and Peace," blog.nj.com, 2 Feb. 2009.

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Lesniak, Raymond. "Justice Is Not Served with the Death Penalty." The Death Penalty, edited by Jenny Cromie and Lynn M. Zott, Greenhaven Press, 2013. Opposing Viewpoints. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, link.gale.com/apps/doc/EJ3010124275/OVIC?u=cobb90289&sid=bookmark-OVIC&xid=0d127cab. Accessed 17 Mar. 2025. Originally published as "The Road to Justice and Peace," blog.nj.com, 2 Feb. 2009.

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The purpose of this source was to explain how the death penalty violates human rights. In this speech given by Raymond Lesniak, he delves into how the death penalty encourages a vengeful ideology, can cause more suffering to already hurt families, and how it can convict the innocent to be sent to execution. The intended audience of this speech was lawyers from all parts of the world so this speech could be in competition with other speeches given at the International Human Rights Competition. The rhetorical appeals used in this source would be logos and pathos. These would be both effective, but pathos was used more because of how he uses real life perspective of a prisoner on death row to give the reader a feel of how it must feel for him. Also, Lesniak used a perspective from a family that had opposed opinions on how the death penalty consoles a family. Using these perspectives, it shows the reader of real-world situations to persuade the reader. This source clarifies why the death penalty should be abolished. This speech does have a defect because of it being made for a competition, so the speech was made for it to possibly win. This is a useful source.