Only need examples from the text, outside critical sources, and...

Only need examples from the text, outside critical sources, and explanation of your selection. Thanks!

Consider this quotation from H. Bruce Franklin:

"Has any work of American literature generated more antithetical and mutually hostile interpretation than Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor? And all the battles about the moral and political vision at the heart of the tale swirl around one question: Are we supposed to admire or condemn Captain Vere for his decision to sentence Billy Budd to death by public hanging? Somehow, astonishingly enough, nobody seems to have noticed that central to the story is the subject of capital punishment and its history."

Franklin, H. Bruce. "Billy Budd and Capital Punishment: A Tale of Three Centuries" American Literature 69 (1997), 337-59.

In a well-developed essay, provide your answer to Franklin's question "Are we supposed to admire or condemn Captain Vere for his decision to sentence Billy Budd to death by public hanging?"