ASSIGNMENTS: Persuasive Speech written out Persuasive speech outline with a bibliography Topic: For legalizing marijuana in Texas Speech must be at least 6 minutes long The purpose is to persuade us of your position through the use of logic, evidence, and reasoning while also using ethical and emotional appeals after thoroughly researching the topic. Not interested in opinions. You must support your assertions with evidence and reasoning. Use examples, statistics, quotations from authorities, etc. Research all side but only take a position on one. (which I have chosen for legalization) Persuasive Speech Outline: A complete sentence outline with a bibliography with at least 10 sources is required. See example below: EXAMPLE of OUTLINE · The Death Penalty Introduction China, Iran, Iraq, Liberia, Nigeria, Thailand, and the United States - What do these countries have in common? Canada, France, East Germany, England, all other western industrial nations except the Unites Dates - What do these countries have in common? The former are countries that practice capital punishment. The later are countries that have abolished capital punishment. There are many reasons for abolishing the death penalty but I would like to talk about three of them. They are that the death penalty does not deter violent crime, that the death penalty is irreversible, and that the death penalty costs more than life imprisonment. Body I.          The death penalty does not deter violent crime. A.        It might, if the person that considers homicide makes a rational decision and expects to be arrested, convicted, sentenced to death and executed. 1. Most people who murder do not see beyond their action; they kill quickly in moments of great fear or emotional stress and under the influence of drugs or alcohol. 2. When the crime is premeditated, the individual rarely believes he or she will be apprehended or executed. B.          In the past 25 years dozens of researchers have analyzed crime statistics for evidence that capital punishment affects the crime rate. 1. The studies show that murder rates in a death penalty state such as Illinois differ little from another with a similar population density without the death penalty such as Michigan. 2. In 1975, the year before Canada abolished the death penalty, its homicide rate was 3.09 per 100,000. In 1986 the rate was down to 2.19, the lowest in fifteen years.                         3.         In 1985 FBI statistics show that the number of law enforcement officers killed was                                 almost four times as great in states with capital punishment than in states without it.             C.        The use of the death penalty may in some cases increase the crime rate.                         1.         In New York between 1903 and 1963 individ ...

1. ASSIGNMENTS:
Persuasive Speech written out
Persuasive speech outline with a bibliography
Topic: For legalizing marijuana in Texas
Speech must be at least 6 minutes long
The purpose is to persuade us of your position through the use
of logic, evidence, and reasoning while also using ethical and
emotional appeals after thoroughly researching the topic. Not
interested in opinions. You must support your assertions with
evidence and reasoning. Use examples, statistics, quotations
from authorities, etc.
Research all side but only take a position on one. (which I have
chosen for legalization)
Persuasive Speech Outline:
A complete sentence outline with a bibliography with at least 10
sources is required.
See example below:

2. EXAMPLE of OUTLINE
· The Death Penalty
Introduction
China, Iran, Iraq, Liberia, Nigeria, Thailand, and the United
States - What do these countries have in common?
Canada, France, East Germany, England, all other western
industrial nations except the Unites Dates - What do these
countries have in common?
The former are countries that practice capital punishment. The
later are countries that have abolished capital punishment.
There are many reasons for abolishing the death penalty but I
would like to talk about three of them. They are that the death
penalty does not deter violent crime, that the death penalty is
irreversible, and that the death penalty costs more than life
imprisonment.

3. Body
I. The death penalty does not deter violent crime.
A. It might, if the person that considers homicide makes a
rational decision and expects to be arrested,
convicted, sentenced to death and executed.
1. Most people who murder do not see beyond their action; they
kill quickly in moments of great fear or emotional stress and
under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
2. When the crime is premeditated, the individual rarely
believes he or she will be
apprehended or executed.
B. In the past 25 years dozens of researchers
have analyzed crime statistics for evidence
that capital punishment affects the crime
rate.
1. The studies show that murder rates in a
death penalty state such as
Illinois differ little from another with a similar
population density without
the death penalty such as Michigan.
2. In 1975, the year before Canada abolished the
death penalty, its homicide rate was 3.09 per 100,000. In
1986 the rate was down to 2.19, the lowest in fifteen years.
3. In 1985 FBI statistics show that the
number of law enforcement officers killed was
almost four times as great in states with capital
punishment than in states without it.
C. The use of the death penalty may in some cases
increase the crime rate.
1. In New York between 1903 and 1963
individual executions were followed by a

4. slight rise in the state’s homicide rate.
II. The death penalty is irreversible
A. An innocent person who has been mistakenly
executed can never be brought back to life.
1. The book, In Spite of Innocence, notes
that between 1900 and 1992 there have been
416 documented cases of innocent persons who have been
convicted and given a death sentence.
2. A 1987 Stanford Law Review Study
showed that in this country, 23 innocent
persons have been executed in the past century.
3. After the 13th innocent man was
released from Illinois’ Death Row, Governor
George Ryan - a Republican and longtime supporter of
the death penalty - imposed a moratorium
on executions in Illinois.
a. In Ryan’s own words, “the
death penalty system is fraught with error and has
come so close to the ultimate … Until I can be
sure with moral certainty that no
innocent man or woman is facing a lethal injection, no one will
meet that fate.”
III. The death penalty costs more than life imprisonment.
A. A 1982 study in New York concluded that the
average murder trial cost taxpayers $1.8 million
- more than twice as much as it costs to keep a person in jail for
life.

5. B. Florida taxpayers have paid more than $57
million for the death penalty between 1973 and 1988
which divided by 18 executions gives a cost of $3.2 million per
execution.
Conclusion
For these three reasons and many more I would hope that you
would agree with me that it is time for the United States to
abolish the death penalty.
As U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall has said:
“The death penalty is no more effective a deterrent than life
imprisonment … While police and law enforcement officials are
the strongest advocates of capital punishment, the evidence is
overwhelming that police are no safer in communities that
retain the sanction than in those that have abolished it. It also is
evident that the burden of capital punishment falls upon the
poor, the ignorant and underprivileged members of society.”
Justice William O. Douglas says: “One searches our chronicles
in vain for the execution of any member of the affluent
society.”
In the words of the Soviet physicist and Nobel Peace Prize
winner in 1975, Andrei Sakharov, “I regard the death penalty as
a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and
legal foundations of a society. I reject the notion that the death
penalty has any essential deterrent effect on potential offenders.
I am convinced that the contrary is true - that savagery begets
only savagery.”
Bibliography
Menninger, Karl. The Crime of Punishment. New York: The
Viking Press, 1969.

6. The Death Penalty - Cruel a& Inhuman Punishment. Amnesty
International USA Pamphlet.
Campaign to End the Death Penalty. 04/04/01. Moratorium
Victory in Illinois.
http://www.nodeathpenalty.org/ilmorratorium.html.
Campaign to End the Death Penalty. 04/04/01. Five Reasons
Why You Should Oppose The Death Penalty.
http://www.nodeathpenalty.org/fiveReasons.html.
A total of at least 10 sources.
The Persuasive Speech
Introduction
1. Get out attention (see the introduction and conclusion under
Course Content on Blackboard).
2. Preview your main points (Arguments).
Body
1. Main Point (Argument #1)
1. Sub-point or supporting material
2. Sub-point or supporting material.
II. Main Point (Argument #2)
A. Sub-point or supporting material

7. III. Main Point (Argument #3)
Conclusion
1. Summarize your main points
2. Call for action
Bibliography
At least 10 sources