The following argument involves the use of emotionally loaded language. Write a well-crafted version of the argument, replacing the emotionally loaded verbiage with more neutral language. The death penalty is a farce. After some vicious killer is convicted and sentenced to die, his case is automatically appealed. Appeal follows appeal, dragging on for decades. Usually these are subsidized by the very community that has been wronged in the form of supplying free lawyers or providing the convicted assassin time and resources to learn the legal loopholes that will prevent his execution.

What will be an ideal response?


1. Any trial that results in conviction and a death sentence is, by law, automatically appealed.
2. Appeals of death sentences may take decades.
3. Appeals of death sentences are subsidized by taxes.
So, 4. The death penalty is ineffective.

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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Lisa Kuly says that a contemporary miko is typically:

A) ?a widow. B) ?the wife of a Shinto shrine's priest. C) ?a political leader. D) ?a university student.

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