The death penalty should be abolished

Hello once again, my name is Forever 23 and I am here in order to bring forth my premise which is that we must abolish the death penalty. As the third opposition, it is crucial for me to repudiate the pros points. Their first assertion was that many people are executed even though they didn't do the crime. That may be true, but there is no way a system can be 100% perfect. There will always be mistakes but at the end, we will surly catch the criminal. According to Prosecuting Attorney for Clark County Indiana Message on the Clark County Prosecutor "...No system of justice can produce results which are 100% certain all the time. Mistakes will be made in any system which relies upon human testimony for proof. We should be vigilant to uncover and avoid such mistakes. Our system of justice rightfully demands a higher standard for death penalty cases. However, the risk of making a mistake with the extraordinary due process applied in death penalty cases is very small, and there is no credible evidence to show that any innocent persons have been executed at least since the death penalty was reactivated in 1976... The inevitability of a mistake should not serve as grounds to eliminate the death penalty any more than the risk of having a fatal wreck should make automobiles illegal..." And therefore, the mistakes should not force us to completely abolish death penalty. Maybe we should just make our investigation systems stronger. Their second assertion was that executions come at great costs. However, the statistic proposed my the proposition, not only had no source, it was also very inaccurate. The Director of Death Penalty Resources at Justice for All stated, "Many opponents present, as fact, that the cost of the death penalty is so expensive (at least $2 million per case?), that we must choose life without parole ('LWOP') at a cost of $1 million for 50 years. Predictably, these pronouncements may be entirely false. JFA [Justice for All] estimates that LWOP cases will cost $1.2 million-$3.6 million more than equivalent death penalty cases. There is no question that the up front costs of the death penalty are significantly higher than for equivalent LWOP cases. There also appears to be no question that, over time, equivalent LWOP cases are much more expensive... than death penalty cases. Opponents ludicrously claim that the death penalty costs, over time, 3-10 times more than LWOP." And therefore, the prices of keeping criminals in jail are larger than those of execution. The propositions third and final assertion was that poor quality defense leaves many sentences to death. However, the attorneys do all that they can in order to save the criminal from death sentence. The attorneys hired are usually very professional and adequate. According to California District Attorneys Association (CDAA) , "Defense attorneys... routinely file all manner of motions and objections to protect their clients from conviction. Attorneys know their trial tactics will be thoroughly scrutinized on appeal, so every effort is made to avoid error, ensuring yet another level of protection for the defendant. They [death penalty opponents]... have painted a picture of incompetent defense lawyers, sleeping throughout the trial, or innocent men being executed. Their accusations receive wide media coverage, resulting in a near-daily onslaught on the death penalty. Yet, through all the hysteria, jurors continue to perform their responsibilities and return death sentences." Therefore, those put on death sentence really do deserve it and the reason they die should not be blamed on lawyers. Thank you, please vote for the opposition.