The Death Penalty should be Abolished

I propose simply that the governments of countries should take measures to keep the death penalty for some crimes. This is not limited to murder but that's potentially for a different round. A life sentence is not the correct punishment to pursue because prision is not even a bad place for prisoners, so it's not much of a punishment. Many people commit crimes just because they enjoy prisons so much. Why wouldn’t they? Some perks of being a prisoner: -They get 3 meals a day. If they don't like the food, then they often make their own. This applies to poor people who would otherwise not necessarily have enough to eat. -This kindof goes with the one above. They get to participate in the Ramen trade(https://www.npr.org......) -Clean clothes -Getting paid for stuff http://dailycaller.com......(A right wing source) https://www.thrillist.com......(I don't know, but an extra site) https://www.huffingtonpost.com......(A left wing source) So, now on to why I believe we should keep the Death penalty (DP) this after defining my policy statement. I will propose three simple and logical rebuttals for why the death rate penalty is good and thus why it follows that we should pursue it's continuance. Firstly, the death penalty is right because it allows for very few innocent people to be murdered by the state. Only 4.1% of convicts for murder are actually innocent. (This is religious) If your executed innocent, since atheist criminals tend to convert out of fear of hell, once they get executed innocently, they would go to heaven. Even if your secular, the innocent inmates would probably be thinking hopeful thoughts at the deathbed. I say this as an atheist, so it's not like I have religious bias. http://www.newsweek.com......... No matter how strong the burden of proof is as claimed by opponents of my position, it is very rare when innocent people are wrongly convicted of serious crime and in certain countries are then murdered by the state for those false crimes. Let's be clear - our criminal justice systems improve every year. If pain and suffering can be endured by both the wrongly accused and their families and friends, then simply don't tell them and they will think that their accused relative was guilty. "Furthermore, considering African Americans make up almost 50% of the American prison population despite being only 13% of the population and that Black people are 7 times more likely to be convicted wrongly of murder than white people this suggests that racism is a major factor causing injustices in legal systems." The reason why Black people tend to be more likely to end up in prison than Caucasians is the same reason why males are more likely to end up in the prison system than females. It is because they are more likely to commit crime and when they do, it tends to be more intense on average. When a state kills somebody for committing a crime, it provides justice for the murderer and prevents him from killing other prisoners, since lifetime imprisonment would make him angry enough to potentially kill someone since he has had practice. Victims feel more of a sense of justice when a criminal faces DP, after all, getting killed is more painful than being in prison for life. To live anyhow is better than to not live at all(with exceptions). There is evidence that killing even guilty people actually acts as a deterrent to further support my claim that it achieves nothing. Japan has the death penalty, South Africa does not and Japan has a far lower homicide rate. There is no guarantee that the murderer would feel sorrow. Dylan Roof wouldn't have felt sorrow when he killed 9 people in a Baptist Church. He hated the people in there. Many murderers want to be known and famous, even if it's famous in a bad way. The death penalty should be justifyingly cruel, and murderers should die by the formula D=PL^3. D means Death method, P means amount of pain caused, and L is the number of lives killed. I would like to point some quotes from my opponent “This is wrong because human suffering is universally wrong.” “This is suitable because they will not be a threat to the public and because they will be deprived of most freedoms and live the rest of their lives in a tough and unpleasant way” Which is it? Do you want criminals to suffer or not? The convict's family won’t be victimized by the execution. Instead they would support it. Adam Lanza’s Dad wished he was never born. Parents tend to hate the murderer as much as society. “human life is in sacred” Apply this to a fetus, and you will be more ideologically consistent. “it extinguishes that individual's ability to contribute to society after they have been reformed in prison.” You want life imprisonment. This makes it impossible for the to do this. Not all murderers become reformed and even if they have a change of heart, they still must endure their punishment. “And, appeasing the fiery emotions of traumatised victims is not essential to the betterment of society.” Really, the pro DP people are the emotional ones. You guys are the ones who cry out for the murderers that you call human beings. That sounds pretty emotional to me. Also, keep in mind that they go through a rational jury and judge before getting executed. These people don’t base their punishments off of feelings. They ase it off of logic and ethics. “Violence is wrong in all cases.” You once again contradicted yourself because above you said it was okay in self defense, but not execution. Violence is sometimes wrong, sometimes right. Moreover, it perverts the notion of justice served by the law and ultimately by our societal notion of universal morality. The reason why non DP states tend to have a lower homicide rate is because they tend to be richer due to urbanization and therefore less likely to have it’s individuals commit crime. “Disturbed individuals are often angered or believe that violence is more acceptable since the most fundamental form of authority (the state) leads by example in murdering criminals and thus these people are more likely to commit murder.” That is not true. The reason why they murder iss because they are sick in the head, because society treated them badly, because they want to make a murderer list, or a combination of the previous reasons. “It is also linked to increased number of police officers murdered.” I will need a citation. In conclusion, the death penalty represents everything that really is justice. It kills only a few innocent people, all on accident, it necessarily deletes lives in rarely horrendously painful ways and worst of all, it does not underpins a notion of acceptable brutality since it punishes murderers justifyingly harshly. “Before Keith Tharpe was sentenced to death one juror called him "a nig**r".” This is an extreme situation that should be cited. This is not mainstream.