The following argument gradually increase in difficulty. Use the method presented in this section to construct argument patterns. If a statement is redundant or plays no role in the argument, do not include it in the pattern.
1 Society values white lives more than black lives. This is clear from the fact that
2 killers of whites are much more likely to be sentenced to death than killers of blacks.
3 Of the 1,788 people currently on death row, 1,713 were convicted of killing a white person. Yet
4 blacks are six times more likely to be murder victims than whites are.
5 In Florida, no one has ever been executed for murdering a black person, but
6 dozens have been executed for murdering white people.