this article I started to have doubts in Mr. Freedman. In the very first paragraph he states "According to critics"(USA Today, pg 48) and does not name any of them. Who are these supposed "critics?" They could be anybody. They could be a whole committee of opponents of the death penalty, who furthermore only show findings that they agree with. So, I as a reader, have no idea except for the fact that it was a group of so called "critics."
             Then directly after the first paragraph he says that in September of 1995, the state of New York re-instituted the death penalty and that this only meant that "New Yorkers will get less crime control than they had before."(USA Today, pg 48) Well I decided to do a tad bit more digging and discovered that, according to the 1992 and 1997 FBI Uniform Crime Report for the New York State area, since 1992 serious crime had declined some 33%. What I also found was that the murder rate was down and violent crime was down 39% and 32% respectively. Now, after proving that one wrong my confidence in Mr. Freedman was dropping rapidly. However, I decided to give him the benefit of the doubt and said that we all can make mistakes.
             Next I discovered his main purpose for writing this article in the first sentence of the third paragraph. And he supports this argument with the reasons of the death pe
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