Blog 2

 The death penalty is something that society tries to ignore, because some of us rather let someone else decide.When it comes to the death penalty, many people believe that it depends on the level of knowledge that they have according to the case.Recently, there was a news story about what should be done about putting the Boston Marathon Bomber to the death penalty,  and all five "Gubernatorial candidates" in Massachusetts agreed that he should be put to the death penalty. This story made me think about a given scenario, and that is, if the defendant was able to come up with a rhetoric speech,what will be the given skills or things that he or she would use.  I mention this scenario, because in the past readings in class  have dealt with has to deal with persuasion, and how to be successful and powerful at it. The readings give us a definition of rhetoric, and that is, " A  style of speaking or writing, especially in language of a particular subject".

Now, if the  defendant was able to use the skill or tool of lets say, what the  definition of rhetoric tells us, and that is, the language in a specific subject, then the defendant can use what he or she mostly needs to defend him'herself with.In the readings, it also mentions how rhetoric has a relationship with persuasion, and language, and although court systems don't base their judgement on " language", I wonder, if persuasion and language were the main resource for a  judge, what would of really happened to the Boston Bomber,given the fact that he had some mental problems.