Resolved: The Death Penalty is a just punishment.

Sorry to post so late Off your case- I. You talk about the death penalty being the only true proportionate to a murder... An eye for an eye if you will... But what you have to see is that killing someone for killing someone is imprudently sinking yourself to the level of the murderer. In times like this you must ask yourself, "Why is killing bad?" The answer is obvious, you take away the rest of someones life... it is final. This takes away the chance of reversing the sentence (which I will extend on a little later), it also takes away the chance for the victim's chance of redeeming himself... Even if you don't believe in after life of any certain faith you do have to give into the idea of going out of this life on a good note. Certain people have "saved themselves" while being in prison... Why? because you give them TIME to THINK ABOUT IT... If you kill them you take away their right to that which can never be reversed. Being in prison FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE (w/o death penalty) IS the ULTIMATE PUNISHMENT. Killing someone is a easy way out for these people. The only way they are going to receive humane suffering is by being in prison. The death penalty has essentially taken away the whole suffering factor (lethal injection)... You claim "eye for eye", but when someone rapes, tortures, and kills someone, how can a poke in the arm get any sort of settlement out of that. The only way of receiving your "due" (your definition of just) is by having them "rot" in prison(humanly yet painfully). IIA. You talk about it being utilitarian... HA... You "protect" people, but when asked "which would you prefer, life in prison or a poke in the arm?" what deterrence is that? They both suck, but you have to give them time to rethink that night they ended someones life for them to suffer at all. Furthermore, you have to see all of the innocent peoples lives it kills. I don't have an exact number (after all, how can you be sure), but it IS common knowledge that people have been put to death when completely innocent. I HAVE seen statistics that plea bargaining has been responsible for half of the people that are on death row actually being innocent (half of EVERYONE)... 7-8 people are "saved" by the death penalty, but how many are killed? The sad fact is that no one will ever be sure, because as I've said, the death penalty is final. IIB. The death penalty ensures that the same crime will not be committed by the same person... Same as the innocent never being able to see light again. Furthermore, the only thing that would replace the death penalty would be life in prison without parole. This debate is about the death penalty being just or not... this argument is simply a justification (excuse) as to why to use something. If a guy spit on me I could kill him to ensure that he wouldn't do it again but that doesn't make it just. III. This third argument is mislead. The state is truly the police... "In the moment" can NOT be done in the judicial system of our government, only by police. Police to not give the death PENALTY. When they protect themselves, it is not a penalty and is NOT capital punishment. If a person is under arrest, self defense is not possible by the initiation of law. I stand ready for your responses! Thank You!