"Views You Can Use: Death Penalty Divide" Summary

The beginning of this article, written by Rachel Brody, goes over Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders' Thursday night's MSNBC debate.  For the most part the two candidates almost agreed with every issue that was gone over except for the death penalty.  When the death penalty was brought up the candidates were split neatly.

Clinton believes that the death penalty is an appropriate punishment; whereas, Sanders does not support the death penalty.  In fact, Sanders has advocated publicly to abolish the death penalty and said, "I just don't want to see government be part of killing.  That's all."

After both sides were stated the article continues on to say that the death penalty is mostly a moral, ethical argument.  The article says that at least for today, Democrats disagree with the government executing people. In the end, the article says that there have been less and less state-sanctioned killing in the U.S. which is something to be happy about.

I chose this source because Rachel Brody is associate editor for opinion at U.S. News & World Report which I believe give her the credentials to write this article.

Citation

Brody, Rachel. "Views You Can Use: Death Penalty Divide." U.S. News. U.S. News, 5 Feb. 2016. Web. 8 Sept. 2016.