The Death Penalty Should Be Implemented In Every Society

C1: Human Rights Violation"Methods of execution are flawed. I will only consider lethal injection as it is widely considered to be the most humane method of execution. Lethal injection causes paralysis and can be considered as cruel and unusual punishment. "The lethal injection method is actually very humane. It first starts out with Sodium thiopental which puts the person in a coma in 30-45 seconds. Then the Pancuronium bromide paralyzes a person when they are already in a coma. Then the Potassium chloride leads to cardiac arrest. The only drug that leads to death is injected while the person is paralyzed and in a coma.(1)Most people want executions to be humane. But the question is: why? A death penalty should only be given in cases of murder. Therefore, we can safely assume that the person caused the victim harm. Even though we try to avoid this, it is justified if the person accidentally suffers. "Since 1990, an average of three countries each year have abolished the death penalty, and today over two-thirds of the world's nations have ended capital punishment in law or practice [7]. This shows that we are moving away from barbaric medieval practices like the Death Penalty. Pro for some reason argues that "lack of human rights" are more important than human rights. It makes no sense. The fact that human rights are a new concept shows that as a society, we are becoming more civilized. "The fact that countries removed the death penalty shows absolutely nothing. According to your logic, the Dark Ages as a whole were more civilized than Ancient Greece, which brought us math, science, philosophy, astronomy, etc because they were farther along the evolutionary scale.My human rights logic goes as follows:Modern human rights have only existed for the past century.Lack of human rights have existed for ten thousands of yearsTherefore, human rights cannot be deemed correct.C2: Innocent people are executed"There have been 273 post-concivtion exonerations total in the United States and 206 since 2000. 17 of the 273 people exonerated specifically through DNA served time on death row [5]. And overall the U.S. has exonerated 138 death row inmates to date."So you are saying that there have been 273 exoneration's since 2000 but only 138 exoneration's in total. Contradictory much? Your stats of 138 exonerated since 1973 are correct (2) so we will examine them. Since 1976, there have been 1 271 executions in the United States. (2) There are very little (if not none) cases of criminals being exonerated after they have died. Therefore, lets take the lowest assumption of 3 saved per execution (previous round). As a result, 3 813 lives were saved by executing the 1 271 prisoners. If there were no exoneration's, then the 138 would have died. According to utilitarianism this is just because the majority of the people benefit.The argument that DP executes innocent people is very weak. There are very few (if none) cases were it was acknowledged that the DP executed a wrong person. "Many that are executed could be innocent. There is no way to tell how many of the over 1,000 people executed since 1976 may also have been innocent. Courts do not generally entertain claims of innocence when the defendant is dead. Defense attorneys move on to other cases where clients' lives can still be saved"You are making an assumption. Assumptions do not stand it debates. Since there is no proof that any of them were innocent, for the purpose of this debate, you cannot assume that they are innocent. "A common argument for Pro DP is that it saves innocent lives. But how many does it really save? The alternative to the DP is life without parole. So, the DP only saves the lives of innocents who would have been killed if a murderer escaped from a Maximum security prison, and managed to murder again. Prison escapes are rare and are declining." The DP saves between 3 and 25 innocent lives per executions.Yes, escaping from a maximum security prison is nearly impossible. However, it costs much more. As previously demonstrated, it costs $2.835 million to keep a person locked up for 30 years. It costs $1.2 million for a conventional death penalty today. Keeping a person locked up for 30 years is 2.36 times more expensive than the death penalty. Some people are incarcerated for more than 30 years.I would like to point out that my most effective and convincing argument about DP Deterrent remains untouched. ConclusionI believe that I have effectively rebutted all of my opponent's cases. My opponent has ignored my most effective case that the death penalty serves as a deterrent. Human rights is a relatively new idea that cannot be deemed correct. The possibility of an innocent execution is nearly non-existent. The death penalty reaps amazing benefits for society.I urge voters to vote PROGood luck to CON(1)http://en.wikipedia.org... (2)http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org...