I was taught that if you are willing to take a mans life, you had better know that your right to live has been forfeited. ... Dead Man Walking was written with the highest of intellectual standards, in a way which the reader feels no bias. ... Sister Prejean states that, "capital punishment as practiced in the United States is a poor mans punishment" (61). ... I think its pretty obvious, statistics show that the black man has a far greater chance of receiving the death penalty, whereas the white man who hires fantastic legal counsel stands the chance of possibly plea bargaining to a light s...

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• Grade Level: High School

Whether a man should die now or die later should not be the focus of the capital punishment debate. ... The end result is the same....one more dead body, one more set of grieving parents, and one more cemetery slot. ...

• Word Count: 2255
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• Grade Level: High School