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    The document summarizes an op-ed by David Von Drehle arguing that the death penalty should be abandoned nationally. Von Drehle uses statistics to show that few death row prisoners are executed and cites a police survey showing the death penalty is unpopular. He also calls the death penalty "unconstitutional" and "immoral." The summary argues that Von Drehle uses alarming facts, passionate language, and a desire to enact change to appeal to a progressive audience and encourage action to abolish the death penalty.

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    The document summarizes an op-ed by David Von Drehle arguing that the death penalty should be abandoned nationally. Von Drehle uses statistics to show that few death row prisoners are executed and cites a police survey showing the death penalty is unpopular. He also calls the death penalty "unconstitutional" and "immoral." The summary argues that Von Drehle uses alarming facts, passionate language, and a desire to enact change to appeal to a progressive audience and encourage action to abolish the death penalty.

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    The document summarizes an op-ed by David Von Drehle arguing that the death penalty should be abandoned nationally. Von Drehle uses statistics to show that few death row prisoners are executed and cites a police survey showing the death penalty is unpopular. He also calls the death penalty "unconstitutional" and "immoral." The summary argues that Von Drehle uses alarming facts, passionate language, and a desire to enact change to appeal to a progressive audience and encourage action to abolish the death penalty.

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    Jeremy Barry

    Ms. Michko

    AP Language and Composition

    6 June 2023

    Death Penalty- Precis

    In her op-ed “The death penalty makes a mockery of our justice system”, American

    citizen David Von Drehle argues that the death penalty is unpopular with the public and it is time

    for it to be abandoned nationally. Von Drehle develops his argument about the death penalty by

    reciting alarming statistics regarding the amount of death row prisoners that are actually

    executed, conveying the death penalty as extremely unpopular through a police survey and, he

    describes the death penalty “unconstitutional” and “immoral.” Alarming statistics combined with

    being “ganged up” against and effective word choice affirms the death penalty as horrid which is

    important in order to introduce new and more important ideas about the effectiveness and

    morality of the death penalty. Von Drehle appeals to a progressive, young audience by employing

    a passionate tone, illustrating a true desire to make a change which makes his audience more

    likely to take action and get rid of the death penalty in America.

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