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    This document provides an example outline for an argumentative essay against the death penalty. The 5 paragraph outline includes an introduction with a thesis statement opposing the death penalty on human rights grounds. The 2nd and 3rd paragraphs argue that the death penalty risks innocent lives and is ineffective and expensive. The 4th paragraph argues it is unjust. The 5th paragraph rebuts arguments for it and the conclusion restates the thesis that the death penalty is bad for society and a human rights violation.

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    This document provides an example outline for an argumentative essay against the death penalty. The 5 paragraph outline includes an introduction with a thesis statement opposing the death penalty on human rights grounds. The 2nd and 3rd paragraphs argue that the death penalty risks innocent lives and is ineffective and expensive. The 4th paragraph argues it is unjust. The 5th paragraph rebuts arguments for it and the conclusion restates the thesis that the death penalty is bad for society and a human rights violation.

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    This document provides an example outline for an argumentative essay against the death penalty. The 5 paragraph outline includes an introduction with a thesis statement opposing the death penalty on human rights grounds. The 2nd and 3rd paragraphs argue that the death penalty risks innocent lives and is ineffective and expensive. The 4th paragraph argues it is unjust. The 5th paragraph rebuts arguments for it and the conclusion restates the thesis that the death penalty is bad for society and a human rights violation.

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    GRAPHIC ORGANIZER FOR WRITING ESSAY

    NAME: TEACHER: DATE:

    Outline your essay by filling out the sections:

    TOPIC

    FIRST
    PARAGRAPH

    1.

    2.

    3. Thesis statement:

    SECOND
    PARAGRAPH

    1.

    2.

    3.
    GRAPHIC ORGANIZER FOR WRITING ESSAY
    THIRD
    PARAGRAPH

    1.

    2.

    3.

    FOURTH
    PARAGRAPH

    1.

    2.

    3.

    CONCLUSION
    SAMPLE OUTLINE
    Sample Outline #1: Against the Death Penalty

    Paragraph One:

    1. Human life is the most precious gift.

    2. Penalty is against everything a civilized society stands for. While there’s a


    separation of Church and state, all major religions oppose it. Throughout
    history, humans have learned repeatedly the dangers of “playing God.”

    3. Thesis statement: The death penalty should be abolished in the interest of


    human rights.

    Paragraph Two:

    1. The death penalty risks the lives of innocent people.

    a. Cite times innocent people have been put to death.

    b. Cite cases of human fallibility within the justice system.

    c. Cite statistics of racism swaying the hand of justice.

    Paragraph Three:

    2. The death penalty is ineffective and expensive.

    a. Cite the direct costs connected to killing one prisoner on death row.

    b. Cite the facts that show capital punishment does not prevent crime.

    c. Argue that the death penalty separates us from civilized nations that have
    abandoned it, but aligns us with more barbaric and ineffective nations that
    continue it.

    Paragraph Four:

    3. The death penalty is unjust in every manifestation.

    a. The death penalty forces citizens to feel complicit in the state’s killing of
    prisoners.

    b. Many death row prisoners were given incompetent legal defense.

    c. People who put others to death often suffer from crippling PTSD.

    Argumentative essay outline format and examples. (2018, May 18). Retrieved on February 06, 2023 from
    https://www.aceyourpaper.com/essay-writing/argumentative-essay-outline/
    SAMPLE OUTLINE
    Sample Outline #1: Against the Death Penalty

    Paragraph Five:

    1. On the other hand, those in support of the death penalty argue that certain crimes are
    so
    heinous that the death penalty is the only suitable form of justice.

    a. This viewpoint is incorrect because it operates under the assumption of some sort of
    moral
    order, and then violates that moral order. Every person knows it’s wrong to kill.

    b. This viewpoint fails to realize that capital punishment is considered “cruel and
    unusual” and
    hence a violation of the eighth amendment.

    Paragraph Six (conclusion):

    Capital punishment is bad for society and a human rights violation. It is barbaric to have
    a form of punishment in place where innocent lives are sentenced to death. The death
    penalty costs the state millions each year and still does nothing to deter further crimes
    from happening. The death penalty is the pinnacle of an unjust society.

    There is an inherent sacredness in human life, even in those who commit unfathomably
    heinous acts. Our failure to honor that through the use of capital punishment is a sign of
    a sick society.

    Argumentative essay outline format and examples. (2018, May 18). Retrieved on February 06, 2023 from
    https://www.aceyourpaper.com/essay-writing/argumentative-essay-outline/

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