classification


 * 1) "they don't call the southern states the death belt for nothing"
 * 2) In this quote Sister Prejean makes a generalization that classifies the southern states as more likely to give the death penalty than others. While a bit of a stereotype, the facts support this claim.
 * 3) Pg 49
 * 4) Genevieve Bennett


 * 1) "Nine times out of ten the death penalty is sought out because the victim is white. Capital punishment is a poor man's punishment."
 * 2) This is classification because Millard is saying that the death penalty only applies to poor people who murder whites, a very specific classification.
 * 3) Page 61
 * 4) Alex Clark

1. " But if we are to have a society which protects its citizens from torture and murder, then torture and murder must be off-limits to //everyone//." 2. In this quote, Sister Helen explains how our legal system follows this double standard of punishing certain acts, then they do the same acts to those they punish for it. She classifies it as a hugely over-looked double standard in our country. 3. Page 124 4. Josh Oelsner

1. "We know that one of the key issues we must address is the fear of crime which fuels the death penalty"...."But the public's view is largely shaped by the media, which are prone to emphasize death from violence while downplaying more prevalent and commonplace threats to life. In one study, for example, some respondents thought that homicides cause more deaths than strokes, when in fact strokes cause eleven times more deaths." 2. This is classification because Prejean is classifying the fear of homicide in American society as irrational. She then classifies the source of this irrational fear. 3. Page 128-129 4. Danielle Gaztambide

1. " Will you dare, I ask, to condemn the unfairness inherent in the judicial system which mete out one brand of justice for the rich and one for the poor?" 2. Sister Prejean classifies the justice system as inherently flawed and biased. 3. Page 167 4. Gabby Ghabash

1. "But it's not the presence of television cameras or the compostition of the crowd or even whether the crowd acts politely or not that makes the execution of a human being ugly. An execution is ugly because the premeditated killing of a human being is ugly. Torture is ugly. Gassing, hanging, shooting, electrocuting, or lethally injecting a person whose hands and feet are tied is ugly. And hiding the ugliness from view and rationalizing it numbs our minds to the horror of what we are doing. This is what truly 'coarsens' us." 2. In this quote, Sister Prejean classifies the brutality of the execution. The truth behind all the blurred lines of an execution. She take into acount the value of human life--a trait often ignored in a case such as this. 3. Page 216 4. Dona Sansone