That we should abolish the death penalty

I must negate the resolution that the death penatly should/ought to be abolished.. I will be giving a value and Value criterion for this debate, Value is Utilitarianism which is the greatest good for the greatest number of people. Criterion is decreasing risk Contention 1: Abolishing the death penalty will decrease the amount of safty to society , which does not provide or increase utility. If states would abolish the death penalty the crime rate would increase, how so that murder would not be feared. People will not fear committing a murder the worse punishment would be 25 to life, which isn't so bad they get free room and board ,food,showers, and alot of alone time. Will this really teach them to not murder again? We will never know, by any chance he gets probation and paroll and gets out whats to say he won't commit more murders or violent crimes? There isn't any, by having the death penalty people will not only think twice before committing the crime but make sure they stay off the streets for good. This also makes more space for jails and jail costs like i said they get basics like 3 square meals a day and etc. By abolishing capital punishment you are actually increasing risk to society, and not providing utilitarianism. Contention 2: States have an obligation to provide security to its people, part of this is reducing risk to society. By allowing capital punishment you are reducing risk and increasing utility because lest jail costs. As i pretty much stated in contention 1 how it does this, murders will possible commit the same crime again."Does the death penalty deter? It is hard to prove one way or the other because in most retentionist countries the number of people actually executed per year (as compared to those sentenced to death) is usually a very small proportion. It would, however, seem that in those countries (e.g. Singapore) which almost always carry out death sentences, there is far less serious crime. This tends to indicate that the death penalty is a deterrent, but only where execution is a virtual certainty. The death penalty is much more likely to be a deterrent where the crime requires planning and the potential criminal has time to think about the possible consequences. Where the crime is committed in the heat of the moment there is no likelihood that any punishment will act as a deterrent. There is a strong argument here for making murder committed in these circumstances not punishable by death or for having degrees of murder as in the USA." http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org... It can deter planned or 1 degree murder. Contention 3: that most countries that have abolished the death penalty there crime rate went up..."The rates for unlawful killings in Britain have more than doubled since abolition of capital punishment in 1964 from 0.68 per 100,000 of the population to 1 .42 per 100,000. Home Office figures show around unlawful killings 300 in 1964, which rose to 565 in 1994 and 833 in 2004. The figure for homicides in 2007 was 734. The principal causes of homicide are fights involving fists and feet, stabbing and cutting by glass or a broken bottle, shooting and strangling. 72% of the victims were male with younger men being most at risk. Convictions for the actual crime of murder (as against manslaughter and other unlawful killings) have also been rising inexorably. Between 1900 and 1965 they ran at an average of 29 per year. There were 57 in 1965 – the first year of abolition. Ten years later the total for the year was 107 which rose to 173 by 1985 and 214 in 1995. There have been 71 murders committed by people who have been released after serving "life sentences" in the period between 1965 and 1998 according to Home Office statistics. Some 6,300 people are currently serving sentences of "life in prison" for murder. Figures released in 2009 show that since 1997, 65 prisoners who were released after serving life were convicted of a further crime. These included two murders, one suspected murder, one attempted murder, three rapes and two instances of grievous bodily harm. The same document also noted that 304 people given life sentences since January 1997 served less than 10 years of them, actually in prison." And "Statistics were kept for the 5 years that capital punishment was suspended in Britain (1965-1969) and these showed a 125% rise in murders that would have attracted a death sentence. Whilst statistically all this is true" however As stated above, Texas carries out far more executions than any other American state (between 1982 and 2007 it executed 404 men and 2 women) and there is now clear evidence of a deterrent effect. My friend Rob Gallagher (author of Before the Needles website) has done an analysis of the situation using official FBI homicide figures. Between 1980 and 2000, there were 41,783 murders in Texas In 1980 alone, 2,392 people died by homicide, giving it a murder rate of 16.88 for every 100,000 of the population. (The U.S. ave