The Death Penalty/Capital Punishment should be eliminated

Thank you for responding. 1. I have already covered this. What you aren't mentioning is that another person is killed by inhumane methods. The family is simply being selfish by wanting the crime perpetrator killed. How can you get closure if you sleep at night knowing that you killed someone that you didn't even know? You never knew him or understood him. I have given examples that family members are not happy when the death penalty occurs. They have spoken that they don't receive any sort of closure or happiness when another person is hurt or murdered. 2. No statistics. I gave statistics. Refer to previous rounds for further information. 3. No, actually the death penalty doesn't make sense. Isn't the death penalty meant to act as a crime deterrent (which is failing by the way)? So why are we killing people to teach that the killing of people is wrong? That does not make any sense. And remember, it's not just when innocent people are killed for something they didn't do. The punishment should not fit the crime, it should be worse than the crime, as in solitary confinement or life-in-prison. 4. How does killing another person help the victim who's already dead? A long line of victims have not been waiting for justice because they're dead! And in another case, killing someone is not just in any way. See previous rounds and contentions/refutations. 5. How can you murder someone when you're confined in a maximum security prison? It is extremely hard to escape from such a prison and the crime-maker will never cause crimes again. 6. As I have previously shown, people nowadays are still being sentenced to the death penalty. It's just fortunate enough that they get to stay in death row so long that the court system finds them innocent. But the problem is, it wastes too much time of the court system. There are many appeals and many days are spent on an arduous capital offense. Imagine if we didn't have the death penalty. Courts wouldn't be clogged, innocents wouldn't be killed. The system would be freed of all these problems. 7. As I previously said, prisoners will not be able to escape and they cannot kill anyone in jail. They will not have multiple life sentences, only one because they will never run away. 8. That means we would need more prisons or we need to learn an effective way to prevent crimes. In any case, it's much, much cheaper than the death penalty. Extra guard time means more jobs, too. Bonus to the economy. 9. "Even if you believe a defendant only deserves life in prison, without the threat of a death sentence, there may be no way to get him to plead guilty and accept the sentence." Well, then, even if you believe a defendant deserves the death penalty, without the threat of a life sentence, there may be no way to get him to plead guilty and accept the sentence. It's not really a relevant point, considering it goes the same way for the penalty and the prison. 10. I do believe these numbers are wrong because in the last round, I said "Annual cost of death penalty: $137 million a year Annual cost of penalty with reforms: $232.7 million a year A system using life-in-prison: $11.5 million a year Research conducted by California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice" As you can see, it's much cheaper to keep them in jail. My opponent has hardly refuted any points I brought up in the first and second rounds and only focused on my refutation for his points. His counter-point argument brought up a point that I didn't even argue. For these reasons, the Proposition has won this debate, for the motion that "The Death Penalty should be Eliminated."