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Robert Harris Attitude Towards The Death Penalty

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I am shocked at your attitude towards the death penalty, demonstrated in your article “I SEE A KILLER DIE”. I completely disagree with the idea of capital punishment. Therefore I felt it was necessary to respond to you, considering your opinion about Robert Harris’s execution.
You started at the very beginning with the title I SEE A KILLER DIE, written white on black with capital letters which captures the attention of the reader. As you wrote “I SEE”, it tells how the TV reporter watched with no will. Then specifying and labelling “A KILLER”, without giving a name to depersonalise Harris, like he isn’t really a human being, which creates the intention of a compelling acceptance of his execution by the reader.
Mr Hall, as I perused your article, …show more content…

Michael mother, Sharon Mankins, watched the execution. She said “I have no sympathy for Harris and I doubt whether his maker had either”. This shows she is grateful of the punishment Harris received as it is shown by her attitude, implying she wanted revenge. Desmond Tutu once said “to take life when a life has been lost is revenge not justice.” This shows that when she related him to a “beast”; it indicated how she actually was thirsty for vengeance not justice.
She also mentions about Harris executers in her speech which can be linked to a connotation which you included previously in the article, that the fact they gave him “a chilling piece of last minute advice”, it implied the pleasantness and the gratification from his death. The advice “don’t try to hold your breathe. It will be the worse for you”, hints, indirectly a humiliation towards Harris, referring people are satisfied by his ending; where what happened to him in my stance is cruel.
The capital punishment is brutal and in my opinion, it should be revoked from every nation around the world because it’s morally depraved, as it causes a fearful, cruel and depressing atmosphere. Humans deserve to get a chance to mend and regret their crime rather than eliminating them for

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