The Death Penalty

Hey Michael—and once again I would like to challenge you to another debate on debate. org. Definition Death Penalty: death as punishment for a crime called also capital punishment . http://dictionary.reference.com... Should: must; ought . http://dictionary.reference.com... Illegal: Forbidden by law or statute . http://dictionary.reference.com... Overview This debate will be about the death penalty. I shall be con saying that the death penalty should be illegal, for it is immoral. Pro will rebuttal and give statements on how the death penalty should be legal and that we should continue executing prisoners. The death penalty is rather pointless in my opinion because it costs us more money than the life sentence. The death penalty—does it bring back the victim? No it doesn’t. The death penalty rather than showing us to not perpetrate heinous crimes—shows that us Americans kill one another. Structure of the Debate Round 1: Introductions, and first arguments for Con. Pro will show his rebuttals to my arguments and give his own arguments Round 2: Con will argue back and give more reasons. Pro will rebuttal to Con’s claims and give his arguments again. Round 3: Same as round 2 Round 4: Rebuttal, and give your own personal reasons why the death penalty should be illegal or legal. (for both Pro and Con. ) Round 5: Conclusion. Arguments The Death Penalty is a waste of money The death penalty is a pointless way to punish criminals in many ways. Rather than spend 137 million dollars a year on executing criminals, we should just put them into a life sentence. As said earlier—137 million dollars a year is on executing criminals, but however putting them in a life-sentence will cost only around 11.5 million dollars a year. Life sentence can just be as agonizing as having the death sentence. Death sentence basically means that they kill the criminals, but having a life sentence means that they let the criminals rot in jail until they die. . http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org... The Death Penalty is considered cruel and unusual The United States constitution prevents Americans from being killed in a cruel and unusual manner. Whether or not it’s a decapitation, electric chair, gas chamber, or lethal injection—it’s barbaric to allow state-sanctioned murder in a crowd of people. There’s no point in watching one being killed in an audience, so to say. My belief is that it’s unusual for American’s to be watching an execution happening in jail. The Death Penalty could’ve killed innocent lives The third argument in which I will provide states that “The Death Penalty could’ve killed innocent lives. ” For example—Donald Paradis was sentence to death row in the 1980s for the assumption of him killing two people. After 21 years of hard work from his lawyers—they proved that Donald Paradis actually did not kill the two people—rather he hid the bodies into another place. In this website in which I will provide—it states that they saved approximately 12 innocent people from death row. . 12 people that might’ve been killed for no exact reason—other than perjury from the jury. . http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org... In conclusion—the death penalty is pointless, immoral, and a waste of money.