THB Death Penalty Should Be Apllied to All Major Crimes

This House Believes Death Penalty Should Be Applied To All Major Crimes. THB motions don't require the people debating to show how this would be applied. Robs to consider DO NOT INCLUDE food IF the person committed the crime as last resort to survive. Major Crimes are All Crimes from stealing to murdering. The debate is 4 rounded and this is the way it should be debated Round 1- Definitions, Models. Main Arguments, Contestations Round 2 - Extension, Refutation Round 3- Rebuttal, Refutation - New arguments may only come in form of Refutation or Rebuttal Round 4- Whip your arguments, show the debate main clashes and tell why you think you won the debate _____________________START______________________ The death penalty would be as a lethal injection that is painless to the damned. We are not debating this for any country in special, consider the whole world. People affected would be the criminals only. We live in a world where homicides as something more than usual, where rapists get away without charges and the victims are blamed and shamed, where terrorism makes everyone live with fear, where you work years and years to buy your dream car and some weeks then you get robbed by someone who's pointing a gun to your head. (Please don't say one can get an insurance because that doesn't change the fact that the danger is real) The world where you just want to live a peaceful life with your family and your children get kidnapped, raped and killed and after what? 25, 40 years - depends much on the country - the responsible for it will be free again. First, and so you can all follow my arguments easily, I will talk about why this is important, why we should approve this motion right now and then I will give arguments and answer some of the usual arguments from people that are against death penalty. This is important because right now, doesn't matter if you are in your house or if you are walking on the street, you could get killed. We live in a constant danger. We need to be aware of that. We should approve this right now because IF the murderers, rapists, terrorists, robbers, kidnappers(...) get caught by the authorities will be charged with some years in prison and then will be set free. Some people, me included, think that for murderers and rapists there should be torture available, that can also be discussed but death penalty would still be applied in the end. It's important to approve this because, by only approving, we would be telling the criminals or possible criminals, if you do this, you die. The rates would get to a point so low that would break records. Also, if someone actually commits a crime, they die and it's one less criminal in the world and serves as an example. Now, some points the Opposition may bring and I want to let clear before they even get the chance to exploit it: -What about people that can't afford food? You don't have to rob! I'll be giving the prices existing in my country - Portugal - but I'm sure there is a proportionality so, let's consider this values. Bread costs 0.10" each. If you're really hungry you won't have any problems in asking for a free bread and it will surely be given to you. Or you can always ask on the streets for some money and people will give you around 0.20 to 5" if you're lucky. Also, there are food banks that exist exactly to help people in need for food. Still, if the person steals first necessity food, (s)he won't be considered a criminal as it was in the last resort to survive and, as Government, we would put the person in cause into a program for people in need so they won't have to steal again. -Every life is a gift and shall not be taken! What about the lives the murderer took? What about the lives he may take if you send him to jail and release him 25 years later, or even the lives he may take in prison? What about the lives the rapists destroyed? Those people won't ever be the same they were! -Why don't you just give them life without parole? Will we allow those people to live in prisons? We are going to make every citizen pay to keep the life of those who took innocent lives? Also, by keeping people in prisons, we are allowing them to kill each other violently because the guards aren't always capable of keeping order. The costs of killing someone are far low when compared with keeping a prison working and feed criminals and we will be able to use the prisons for better things instead of keeping criminals. For all of this reasons and as Government, I ask you to vote for this motion!