The USFG should ban the death penalty in all 50 states.

Contention 1: Detterance If we observe the above graph we can see that since the first studies done in the mid to late 1970's we can see that states where there is a Death Penalty we can see that the Murder rates have fallen drastically and there is a signifcant difference in the two. [1] We can also extend across my argument on economists being better at these graphs and studies then those who study crime, because their graphs don't include the lag that is included in the Death Penalty studies. My opponent states that it doesn't deter drug loard and it's simply because the costs of failure outweigh that of the oppertunity of success and such is included in the Criminal's thought. If we observe the works of Fyodor Dostoyveski in his work Crime and Punishment we can see that his observance of the character Radion Raskonlinikov that the Criminal plans everything out in advance and then goes to the greatest lengths to justify it not actually carying about it. He was quoted saying that killing the old pawnbroker was that she was a principle and he killed a principle not a person. He also goes to use the theories of Utilitarianism and the Overman theory to justify his murder showing that it doesn't mater what he did as the murder in his own mind was justified.Contention 2: Innocents and costs. Mistakes will happen no matter what, but once again I extend across my evidense that shows that the rate for error is that of 0.28% which is incrediatably small and with newer and newer technology coming out we can see that the error rate is getting very miniscule and though there will always be errors due to the theory of infinate probability meaning that my opponent's worries are all for nothing. If they don't want to do lethal injection that's okay. There are other means of the death penalty like firing squad or gas chamber. So if you're ever in Utah you can select your death penalty and can pick your one way American ticket for the Hollicaust.Well lets do some math here. The average prisoner lives about 50 years so when we do the math that's about $5 million while it costs $3 million at most for a death penalty meaning that it's chearper to do the death penalty. If my math skills are right we save more money doing to the death penalty. Contention 3: ConstitutionalityThis is to counter my opponent's case. Personally I believe that the Supreme Court is best when it comes to decoding the Constitution as it is their job. In the Supreme Court Case Gregg V. Georgia the Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty did NOT violated the 8th Amendment ending the moratorium on the Death Penalty. In the statement for the Supreme Court Justice White stated, "Even if the character of the accused must be considered under the Eighth Amendment, surely a State is not constitutionally forbidden to provide that the commission of certain crimes conclusively establishes that the criminal's character is such that he deserves death." [2] Justice Stevens has been quoted saying that, "The time for a dispassionate impartial comparison of the enormous costs that death penalty litigation imposes on society with the benefits that it produces has surely arrived." [3] Here we can see that the Supreme Court finds that the Death Penalty is indeed Constitutional and does not violate our 8th Amendment of Cruel and Unusual Punishment nor does it violate our "Right to Life" as we have broken our Social Contract and the government has the right to end our life for ending someone else's. [4]