ality, though a close examination of the statistics used shows that they are not always on the mark and do not always pertain to the subject at hand. What they do pertain to is the claim that capital punishment is a social benefit, that it deters murderers from killing, and that it was once quite effective in American society before the Supreme Court gutted the previous law and forced states to reshape their laws to answer charges that the death penalty was being applied capriciously. While many states have now down so, there are still obstacles to the implementation of the death penalty that have left many on death row for years.
The second paragraph begins the use of statistics and the underlying and continuing use of false analogy. The author writes:
In recent year, few murderers have been executed. In 1957, when 65 executions took place, the nation witnessed 8,060 murders. In 198
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