Death Penalty Fallacies. (Letters to the Editor).Never has the death penalty been better explained than in Thomas R. Eddlem's article in THE NEW AMERICAN ("Ten Anti-Death Penalty Fallacies This is a list of fallacies. Formal fallacies Formal fallacies are arguments that are fallacious due to an error in their form or technical structure.
I have many irons in the fire and one of them is the appropriateness of the national death penalty. Although I have mixed feelings about it, one thing is clear: There is no validity to the argument that the death penalty discriminates against blacks. That argument is fallacious, and many studies proving that fact have been blacked out by the corporate media. However, the federal government has released its own findings. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics Noun 1. Bureau of Justice Statistics - the agency in the Department of Justice that is the primary source of criminal justice statistics for federal and local policy makers BJS , blacks commit more murders than whites, yet whites make up the majority of those sentenced to death. In the year 2000, almost twice as many whites as blacks were actually executed. If anything, the death penalty favors blacks committing the crime. WARREN L. BROWN Portland, Maine Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maine, with a 2004 population of 63,882. Portland is Maine's cultural, social and economic capital. Tourists are drawn to Portland's historic Old Port district along Portland Harbor, which is at the mouth of the Fore River and part |
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