Resolved: The United States of America should abolish the death penalty

I ask the judges to forgive some formatting and other errors due to writing this in small ten minute blocks on my cellphone. Thanks in advance My opponent is arguing the position that the death penalty should be completely abolished. I don"t have to argue the status quo to win this debate. I just have to show one case where the death penalty is justified. If I show that one case, then the law can be properly constrained to just be used for that one situation. Undeniably the purpose of the justice system is to provide justice. If justice does not occur than criminals get the impression that society does not care. This is similar to what occurs in Broken Windows Theory. Broken windows theory is the theory that allowing visible signs of lawlessness and just general scum baggery will signal to others that the behavior is acceptable and have a sort of snowball effect. Allowing murderers to roam around prisons instead of putting them on the fast track to being killed creates an environment where people think it"s okay to shank each other. Broken windows theory was proven when New York conducted experiments attacking graffitti and "quality of life" crimes in the early 90s and seeing a sharp reduction in crime that followed. But some recent experiments also support the conclusion that broken windows theory is correct. "researchers exposed study subjects to a mix of orderly and disorderly images. Then they administered a challenging math exam, which the participants had to grade themselves on afterwards. The higher they scored, the participants were told, the larger the cash reward they received. Without saying as much, that grading model essentially cleared a path for cheating, if the subjects were so inlined. And cheat many of them did"and more so if they"d looked at a certain kind of visual cue. In fact, the researchers found that subjects who were exposed to more disorderly images prior to the exam were 35 percent more likely to cheat, and cheated by a much greater magnitude, than did participants who saw more orderly images. . https://www.citylab.com... All the evidence suggests that by killing the scummiest people, we could prevent a lot of prison rape and shankings and all that good stuff. Bargaining Chips Keeping the death penalty is important because it can help close cases. Killers will often plea bargain down to life helping investigators bring closures to families by securing confessions or helping to find bodies of missing persons. According to Foy Latham: "In the case of the Green River Killer, the killer pleaded guilty to 48 counts of aggravated murder and agreed provided information to help locate remains, closing the cases and providing closure to the families. " . http://www.debate.org... Counter Plan I suggest we save costs by fast tracking deaths. Speeding up the appeals process is one way, but Roy Latham suggested some other ways in his debate against Mikal. "The main reason that it costs so much to prosecute death penalty cases is that judges opposed to the death penalty allow trivial or even ridiculous legal arguments to be used as an excuse to delay carrying out the sentence. Some judges go so far as to violate the law in supporting appeals. " Roy Latham continues by saying " A remedy is to tighten the judicial oath and to provide an independent panel to censure judges who pursue politics on the bench. The ultimate remedy is impeachment by the legislature to restore legislative power to the proper branch of government. Some lengthy appeals are generated when the initial counsel did not provide an adequate defense. This happens when a rural locality cannot afford expensive outside counsel to defend the accused. State governments should bear the costs; those costs will be saved later by a shortened appeals process. Finally, all appeals based upon legal process should be required to be filed within two years of the initial conviction. That would prevent judges from granting delays based upon appeals filed in sequence" . http://www.debate.org... Preventing Deaths The infamous serial Killer and Necrophiliac Ted Bundy killed atleast 30 women. . https://www.truthfinder.com... According to the attorney who defended him the number is likely much much higher. Ted Bundy escaped from prison twice, and killed both times, one time walking into a sorority and killing 2 of the 4 girl"s there. . http://content.time.com... Not only should we have the death penalty but there should be a fast track to execution. To keep people safe from People like Ted Bundy. It"s not just people on the outside of prison we need to keep safe either. The murder rate for lifers is about 5 for every 100,000. If we can put these murderers on the fast track to death row, we"ll save probably about 4 or 5 lives a year. Another Plan Another plan I think would work great is bringing back Gladiator combat among death row inmates. This could be paid for by redirecting the billions of dollars spent on football stadiums and other sports in major American cities to state sanctioned killing events. This type of event could give the former murderers a chance to redeem their lives by becoming heroes and and by killing piece of crap murderers. It would make the family members of victims happy by watching the person who tortured their relatives get slain. It would also help quench the American vengeful blood lust that permeates us and is the reason why enjoy things such as football or boxing which are inferior substitutes for gladiatorial combat. Happiness Why should we care about bringing About so much happiness? I offer the moral framework of utilitarianism, since an ethical framework has not been offered thus far. Utilitarianism is assumed for most debates but let me spell out what it is here. "moral worth of an action is solely determined by its contribution to overall utility in maximizing happiness or pleasure as summed among all people. It is, then, the total utility of individuals which is important here, the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people. " . https://www.philosophybasics.com... We know that pleasure is good and that pain is bad, and as humans we don"t know much else, but that much cannot be debated. If pleasure is good, we should act in a way that maximizes pleasure for the most people, and quenching the general bloodlust of the American people as evidenced by their sport watching habits and the events that followed 9/11 as well as satisfying relatives of victims harmed by murderers will bring about the most happiness. Vote gladiator combat.