Prejean consistently refers to the endorsement of public killings once present in our society. In her description, she forms short and choppy syntax in order to create tension, haste, and urgency, feelings Prejean believes many individuals associated with the death penalty in the past. Individuals celebrated and often pushed for the death penalty to solve to most minuscule insurrections. Nonetheless, there were still some who were ardently against this practice. Correspondingly, this quote employs anaphora in two instances: repetition of the word “some” in describing the response of individuals execution, and secondly, repetition of the word “it” used to describe the execution itself. In both instances, this repetition is used to elucidate
