The United States and States Therein Should Discontinue the Use of Capital Punishment

(Thank you pro for the debate, I would like to note that due to the lack of round structure, I will build my argument in this round, rebut in round 3 and Defend and rebut further in round 4, any thing that I criticise death penalty abolitionists in this round will not be specifically tailored to my opponent's argument and just be general arguments that abolitionist's make)(I will shorten "death penalty abolitionist" to just abolitionist for the remainder of this debate) (Pro, in your next round can you present your source 13 which was cited in "inaccuracy" but was not in "sources".)C1:Crime DeterrenceA. To put it simply the death penalty deters crime. This is the most argued out point, with abolitionists and supporters saying the exact opposite on this topic, in this topic I will explain why the death penalty does deter crime and why abolitionist studies are biased and flawed.B. A study by Emory University, who studied over 3000 counties in the US, has showed that each execution deters on average 18 murders(1). 18 lives saved for the execution of one criminal, is that not deterrence? There have also been a multitude of peer reviewed studies affirming the same thing(2)C. If you believe that studies are biased, which they are on both sides, common sense can support by end of the argument as well. The price of speeding is a $200 ticket, and the cost for assault is jail time, what crime do you think gets committed more? All punishments have a deterrent effect, the worse the punishment the greater it is.D. I will now cite a source that my opponent has also cites to further prove my argument. Since 1997 the crime rate of death penalty states has decreased by almost 2 murders per Capita(1.9 specifically) meanwhile non death penalty states have decreased my a measly .87 per Capita(3).E. You cannot measure the number of murders per Capita as an argument due to many unstable populations in death penalty states, such as the African American population of California, and the Hispanic population of Texas. These populations are very unstable,and result in high amounts of violence in Chicago and new Orleans. These unstable places and populations leave murder counts significantly skewed. You can measure the change in murder rates to prove deterrence, but more specifically you can see the change in murder rates after an execution.F. Only 7 states have executed someone in 2015 or 16, and only 3 have executed more than 5, and Texas has executed more than 20(4). Texas, as a result has been able to keep it's murder rates blow five, which is lower than non-death penalty states like Alaska and Maryland(5). Maryland, on the other hand, abolished the death penalty in in 2013, and it is seen that it's murder rates have sprung from 6.4 to 8.6(5).G Again Texas has proved the deterrence of crime "A more recent study by Kenneth Land of Duke University and others concluded that, from 1994 through 2005, each execution in Texas was associated with "modest, short-term reductions" in homicides, a decrease of up to 2.5 murders." (1)H. Let us now turn away from statistics and turn towards criminal's point of view. Criminals may not be completely sane, but they can process information. Dmitry Smirnov, a deranged lover, shot down his ex-girlfriend in Chicago. Why is this seemingly unoriginal story so important? It is because Smirnov only killed his ex after he learned that Illinois had abolished the death penalty, and reaffirmed this as close to the murder as the morning of. When Smirnov handed himself in he even concluded, before the trial, that he would get life without parole(6).I. Margaret Daley, Orelius Stweard, and Paul Bresseau were all imprisoned for a multitude of crimes, from assault to bank robbery. What makes their stories so special is that after they got caught, they said themselves that they would have killed if they were not afraid of getting the death penalty.C2:Dangerous CriminalsA. Criminal's murder, they take away lives of innocent humans. But some murderers stand out, maybe for brutality,. maybe for the amount of people they killed or maybe because of the lives they took away because thy were not executed.B. If a murder is so atrocious and gruesome the killer must be put to death, it has always been seem that way. This point can be seen in the case of Lisa Coleman. Lisa murdered a 9 year old child in cold blood. The child died of malnutrition and it had been observed that the young child had suffered over 250 distinct injuries including cigarette burns. As a result she was recently executed(7).C.The serial killers inside a Prison are also a danger to their fellow inmates and prison guards. A serial killer by the name of Graham Young who killed his own step mother, by administering her poison, when he was 15. He was put into a high security prison soon after. Inside the prison he continued to read about poisons. One of his fellow inmates died of cyanide poisoning during his stay at the prison. After Young was released he got a job and everything was seeming to go well, except he was all to eager to make his co worker's coffee. Two of his co workers soon died and over 50 fell ill, he was eventually caught. This case is a shining example of what can happen when a dangerous criminal is not taken care of(8).D. People can escape prison, Robert Crissman, who was arrested of non-violent changes, escaped prison and killed a 55 year old women(9). Some killers like John Miller and Jimmy Lee Gray got some mercy from the criminal justice system and were legally freed from jail. These people didn't embrace their chance to live but instead used it and killed again(10).E. The safety of the people should be a nation's number one priority. And the people I have listed above have proved to be murderers and dangerous people, and when the government doesn't take the necessary precautions then people die.C3:Family of the VictimA. The Families of murder victims are thrown into the turmoil and suffer for a very long time. This near hellish state makes the families of the victims suffer more than the actual murderer himself. Its a horrible thing that happens and it must be stopped(11).B. Some relatives consider the death penalty a form of justice such as Fred Romano who still suffers from the death of his sister. "It's justice," Fred Romano said. "It's not revenge."(12)C. Some families complain about the death penalty, but never about the righteousness of it, but because of the long tedious process that it takes. The death penalty needs to be fixed and the murderers shouldn't be able to stall as long as they can. This puts stress on the families when they need to be together the most(11).In ConclusionThe death penalty is a positive good on society. Executions deter murders and save the life of people. The death penalty should not be banned because it stops crime, and every innocent life counts. The US should not abolish the death penalty because a government's first priority should be to save their people and keep them save. That is what a government is here for and by abolishing the death penalty the government if overriding what they were created for.For these reasons I urge you to vote Con, thank you. Over to Pro.Citations1.http://www.usnews.com... 2.http://cjlf.org... 3.http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org... 4.http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org... 5.http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org... 6.https://apps.bostonglobe.com... 7.http://www.dailymail.co.uk... 8.http://www.biography.com... 9.http://www.cnn.com... 10.http://www.cnn.com... 11.http://www.pomc.com...12.http://www.baltimoresun.com...