Read the paragraph below. Then answer the question.
(1) The death penalty is popular with voters, who are frightened of violent crime, but it is not very effective in reducing the murder rate. (2) In the 1960s and 1970s, when murder rates were lower than today, the death penalty was hardly ever used. (3) Even today, the states that use the death penalty most also often have the highest murder rates. (4) In addition, every death sentence costs taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars in appeals and lawyers’ fees. (5) The number of executions that take place in a state doesn’t seem to matter either. (6) There have actually been some years in which states that had many executions experienced higher homicide rates than states with fewer executions.
Which statement is the point of the argument?

What aspect of the room seems to most bother the narrator of the yellow wallpaper

Read the sentences below. (1) wordsworth believed that poetry should present the ordinary in unusual ways, and shelley's "ode to the west wind" does just that. (2) in the poem, the speaker calls the wind "thou breath of autumn's being." (3) later in the poem, the speaker refers to the wind as both "destroyer and preserver." which word or phrase would smooth the transition between sentence 1 and sentence 2? a "in addition" b "finally" c "for instance" d "moreover"

Read sentence 13 from the draft. some plants retain a great deal of their foliage through much of the spring and summer, but the leaves do not retain their green color for long. which detail would be best to add after sentence 13 to develop the topic? a. since the green color of the leaves that are bright and abundant during the warmer months will disappear by the time it is fall, it is important that the leaves are trimmed and kept freshly cut so that they will last for as long as possible. b. while the temperature outside may dictate when the fall colors of leaves appear, it is only one of many environmental factors that play a part in the changing of colors from green leaves to fall-colored leaves during the cooler months. c. if people want to enjoy the green color of leaves longer, trees should be planted where the environment is warmer and the days longer because chlorophyll in the leaves can only be manufactured and replaced with sunlight and warmth. d. the green chlorophyll normally masks the fall-colored pigments during the warmer months, but as sunlight becomes less abundant and trees become frozen, the fall colors of leaves become more visible as chlorophyll disappears.