Research Paper and its outline with 30 academic sources DUE 4 hours

1-Research Question: Should the Turkish Government legalize the death penalty in Turkey?

2-Working Thesis: Legalizing the death penalty in Turkey would cause some difficulties in order to become a member of EU.

3-Claim: Abolition of the death penalty is an explicit and absolute condition to become a member of the EU.

4-Evidence: All EU Member States have abolished the death penalty.

5-Analysis: In order to become a member of EU, the Turkish Government has to keep the death penalty away from Turkish voters. It is perdictable that the results would be so dramatic for Turkey’s future.

Annotated Bibliography

By the Monitor's Editorial, B. (2016, December 28). The disappearing death penalty. Christian Science Monitor. p. N.PAG.

This academic resource has mentioned the possibility of wrongful executions have still happening. It is a useful source in order to mention pros and cons about capital punishment in my paper.

Griffiths, P. J. (2017). Against Capital Punishment. First Things: A Monthly Journal Of Religion & Public Life, (278), 58-63.

According to this article, all sovereign states kill people. Judicial execution (or, as it is sometimes called, the death penalty or capital punishment), in every sovereign state that practices it, produces many fewer corpses than does any other kind of state killing. This resource would be so helpful to write my essay because it is reliable. It also provides lot of numbers, and analyses.

Should the Death Penalty Have an Age Ceiling?. (2010). Beijing Review,53(39),46,47.

The question ‘’ Should the death penalty have an age ceiling?’’ soon triggered heated debate between opponents and supporters in China. It was a useful source to compare more countries other than the U.S. with Turkey. Asking the right questions is key to finding the right answers. So, it is an excellent source to use.