Artists’ Statement
By: Nicole Castillo, Julia Marlin, Brian Moreno, Mira Soto-Nelson
The death penalty is the punishment of execution, administered to someone legally convicted of a capital crime. The Death Penalty has been a big issue in the United States; many people want to abolish it, while many people want it to remain in the US. According to an article, “The Death Penalty in the United States,” on April 1, 2008, the Death Penalty was authorized by 37 states, the Federal Government, and the U.S. Military. Both sides have strong arguments, but argue their point in a different way. People who support the death penalty use pathos appeals, telling emotion-provoking stories to evoke a need for revenge in the listener. On the other hand, people who oppose the death penalty use facts, logics, and statistics to argue their side. These people argue that killing people is inhumane and use statistics such as the cost benefits of abolishing the death penalty as well as the positive effect doing so would have on crimes rates.
Recently, there have been new developments in the death penalty debate such as the introduction of DNA testing into criminal investigations as well as a series of recent botched executions which have been at the forefront of arguments that the death penalty is cruel. The increase of DNA testing to help confirm the innocence or guilt or a convict in capital cases has lead to the exoneration of over a dozen death row inmates. Unfortunately, there have been a few cases where DNA testing has proven the innocence of someone who has already been executed.
Viewpoints of the death penalty range from complete support to the belief that it should be completely abolished. Arguments for the death penalty include bringing closure to victim’s families and matching punishments for the severity of crimes. In other words the argument is, if someone takes the life of another, they deserve death themselves. Arguments against the death penalty include the economic aspects as well as moral side, a.k.a. killing is always wrong. Additionally many abolitionists believe that the government’s use of the death penalty is hypocritical; they say that murder is wrong and in order to enforce this ideal they kill more of their own citizens.
Narratives:
Emotional Appeals for the Death Penalty
Arguments Against the Death Penalty
Arguments Against Lethal Injection
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I really like the abundance of graphs shown in the Emotional Appeal for Death Penalty narrative!
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I really like how the first narrrive has really great details about the death penalty
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I was not shocked at all that Texas was the number one state that uses the death penalty.
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I think this one is the most powerful for me with the context and imagery
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I don’t really understand the “you’ll never look at fried food the same way” reference, what’s the connection there?
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I do not believe in he death penalty because nobody should take a persons life and its to expensive
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Just based on your title “people who kill people who kill people” capital punishment doesn’t actually make logical sense. If you think taking a life is something a person should never do, how can you kill that person? It’s interesting to see at what point the government thinks it’s ok to take someone’s life
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Are all the prisoners all from the same photo
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I didn’t get the fried food thing at first but then I understood, very clever. This is a really ambitious poster I like it.
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The poster is really clear and well put together.
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Where would one purchase the illegal substances for lethal injections? Did outlawing them make them more dangerous?
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Ugh those DNA tests proving executed prisoner’s innocents really breaks my heart.
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I was really impressed by this poster after I saw the original. I feel each image was placed very well and was very believable.
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I think the movie poster is cool and funny!! I also think the Emotional Appeals to the Death penalty is profound because it shows the different perspectives on the death penalty with stories behind them.
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I feel that the death penalty shouldn’t be allowed, or only allowed for a very select, specific few crimes. Death might an easier way out instead of serving life in prison…
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What types of crimes do you think deserve a death sentence?
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I love how your poster is connected to electric chair… However I believe that its both good and bad
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Very strong poster. I think it shows the death penalty in a whole different way.
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Nice poster, really recognizable
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great work team ❤
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Elijah, I agree, I think there’s a very strong argument that life in prison is worst than death (it’s also cheeper).
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Amazing poster idea. I love the bar code.
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Yes I agree with Elijah, unless of course the prisoner gives consent, some do of course rather die and commit suicide than spend the rest of their lives locked up.
…Wow that just sounded so sad, but it happens right?
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The poster was really good and clever, you can tell that you guys put a lot of thought into it. I really enjoyed the narratives, they’re really interesting.
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Good job team! We did good on our project!
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Brian you did an excellent job with the poster, and worked so hard on it. We are all very proud of you, just loved it! 🙂 . Also I agree with Elijah, and Jasmine, the death penalty should not be allowed because it’s simply doing the same thing to people who have already done it!!!
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how barbaric!
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your title is really funny, i had to keep myself from laughing too hard at it but it’s pretty clever. i find the opinions on the death penalty are pretty varied even in berkeley which is interesting. i personally am on the “some crimes deserve death” side but it’s so bad economically
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I think that your poster portrays a very good representation of your topic. Good job!
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I feel like the death pentalty should e allowed because some crimes are so cruel. But it should only be used in those specially cases, not more than 1% of the time.
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I really like poster and the reasons you’ll gave in why you’ll used that particular movie.
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The quote “you’ll never look at fried food the same way again” is clever
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I find it really interesting because the people who support this method are for it strictly out of emotional not rational. Also great poster design Brian!.
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death penalty were always a strange weird topic for me, but somehow distant since i’m not from US. is kind of… hard to believe
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This poster is really powerful.
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