Koch Cites Bedau for benefit of essay.
Koch's Death and Justice: How capital Punishment Affirms Life" and David Bruck"s "The Death Penalty" are addressing the controversial Capital Punishment/Death Penalty topic. Each author uses a different approach to lay out their ideas about the issue. The brusqueness of Koch's personality and the harsh tone of his essay have fallen short of convincing the reader of "How Capital Punishment Affirms Life" [522]. Whereas Bruck's style allows him to persuade the reader to follow the logic of his essay.
Koch's essay starts off appealing to our emotions as in the cases of Robert Lee Willie who was executed for the rape and murder of an 18 year old girl [522] as well as Carl Shaw who was executed for the double slaying of two young people [522]. By appealing to emotions Koch has not let the reader think of what they are reading but instead react to the outrageousness of the crimes committed.
Instead, Bruck commences by leading the reader through a "moral" argument [528] of the death penalty. He attempts to persuade by citing examples such as the "more than 30 executions carried out over the last two years" [528] within the southern states. Showing an excessive use of the death penalty and allowing the reader to intelligently look at the facts of the death penalty make his point for him.
One of Koch's essential points implies that Adam Bedau said that the "false sentimentality to argue that the death penalty should be abolished because of the abstract possibility that an innocent person might be executed" [524]. This shows a complete disregard for life based on the theoretical assumption innocent people are not executed.
Bruck's rebuttal of Koch in regard to Adam Bedau makes it clear that Koch is selectively citing Bedau, who is an abolitionist, and that in reality Bedau "is at work now on an effort to determine how many wrongful death sentences may have been imposed: his list of murder convictions since 1900 in which the state eventually admitted error is some 400 cases long" [529].
Koch, is trying to persuade its audience that death penalty is justice. ... Another aspect that Bruck uses is the case of a legal error. ... In addition, Bruck indicates that the government shouldn't kill if it is immoral for people to do so. ... In the other article, we see that David Bruck has used logos in many parts of his article. ... By mentioning all these data, Bruck wants to persuade his audience logically. ...
Two individuals that stand on opposite sides of the debate are Edward Koch and David Bruck. Edward Koch uses the rhetorical appeals of emotion and logic in his article, "Death and Justice: How Capital Punishment Affirms Life" more effectively than David Bruck does in "The Death Penalty". ... Eventually, we are going to learn that justice requires neither" (Bruck 42). ... It is clear that Edward Koch does a better job using the rhetorical appeals to convince readers why they should be pro-death penalty than David Bruck. ... Edward Koch uses the rhetorical appeals of em...
Despite the abandonment of the death penalty by the rest of the western world, advocates for capital punishment such as New York Mayor Edward Koch assert the death penalty is a necessary component of a "society in which injustice is not tolerated" where "incidents of murder – will diminish" (Current Issues 484). ... The death penalty is an ineffective punishment that does not ensure public safety as Koch would argue. ... Supporters of the death penalty relied on the intuition that the threat of execution will deter a criminal before the act of murder, however most Ame...
Koch is challenging the reader to make a choice. ... Koch has a very strong pro- opinion on the death penalty. ... Every argument leads back to an inept case made against the death penalty according to Koch. ... Quindlen makes the case for death is given as a deliberation and not retribution by those whose family members were affected. ... Koch's essay in the argument pattern he chose to write in really drove his point home to the reader. ...
After years of watching the ineffectiveness of determining who should be put to death, the Supreme Court in the1972 in the case of Furman vs. ... Edward Koch, the former mayor of New York from 1978 to 1989 and avid death penalty supporter, states that the discriminatory manner of the death penalty "no longer seems to be the problem it once was," yet in 1987, the Supreme Court case of McCleskey vs. ... For instance, Edward Koch quotes Hugo Bedau in support of his claim that such cases are not true, saying "it is false sentimentality to argue that the death penalty should be abolished because of...
Edward Koch proves this by showing how convict Luis Vera, felt about his crime: "Yeah, I shot her," Vera admitted. ... In the days of the Bible one said "an eye for an eye" just as we today say the same thing about justice or retribution. Retribution is a principle that runs through the Bible as a red thread. Koch agrees: "The Bible is our greatest source of moral inspiration" (561). ... Koch simply agrees: "Life is indeed precious .the death penalty helps to affirm this fact" (558). ...
Koch's Postulates Introduction Koch created four guidelines to determine the causal agents of disease in humans, animals, and plants. Koch proved that a disease-causing agent could be transferred from one organism to another and create the same illness. ... Discuss a scenario using a human disease and how Koch;s postulates can be used. ... Can Koch's postulates be applied to all disease causing organisms? ... What value do Koch's Postulates have? ...
Ed Koch and Russel Feingold both present valid arguments both for and against capital punishment. Though both writers have broken down their arguments thoroughly I remain sided with Koch. I feel capital punishment is absolutely necessary and Koch's argument affirmed my theory. ... Ed Koch's argument is much more sensible, logical, and provides comfort to victims. ... I agree with Koch completely that capital punishment does exactly the opposite. ...
