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6% is far too many. Murderers need to be kept off the streets, permanently, we need to save innocent lives, and capital punishment saves them." -->Capital punishment is not the only way to keep murderers off the streets and protect innocent people. Life imprisonment would be sufficient in doing that and would prevent the killing of the accused. "It [death penalty] deters others from murdering." --> The death penalty does not deter others from murdering. Murders are often committed when the criminal is blinded with passion, when emotions prevail over reason. Murderers are sometimes committed under the influence of drugs or alcohol, or in panic moments, when the culprit is caught in an act that breaks the law (robbing the bank, etc.) the way to deter people from committing murder is not by increasing the severity of the punishment but by increasing the possibility that the crime will be discovered and the culprit will be caught. "Murder is killing an innocent, capital punishment is killing a guilty man." --> Murder is defined as the killing of one human being by another especially when premeditated (taken from the American Heritage College Dictionary.) Therefore, the death penalty clearly falls under the definition of murder, and, under no circumstances, is murder acceptable, justifiable, or moral. "Human Judgement may be fallible, but it does not fail countless times on the same issue." --> Indeed, it can. When Copernicus first discovered that the Earth revolved around the sun instead of the other way around, no one believed him. His works on astronomy were discredited for hundreds of years. This was all because the people's judgement was clouded by the church's teachings. Therefore, human judgement can also fail when deciding whether or not the death penalty is just. "And more than 25 people have died from the chicken pox shot. Is it a huge deal? No, because comparatively we save many innocent lives. It's very much the same thing. You kill when you save, it's inevitable." --> Is the killing of an innocent person a huge deal? Of course it is. Killing, in order to save, is not inevitable. There are other ways of protecting the innocent from criminals such as life imprisonment. "Just because they didn't murder again doesn't mean they suddenly became a wonderful person. Besides, with the death penalty, the statistic will be 0%. We need to save innocent lives, reforming the lives of murderers should not be our priority." --> I agree that saving innocent lives is very important and should be a priority. However, without capital punishment and with the substitution of life imprisonment, we can save innocent lives as well as reform the lives of criminals. "You need to sacrifice lives sometimes. People have to die, it's your choice though, a few murderers of many innocents." --> Sacrificing lives is not necessary. I have already stated (above) that life imprisonment would save the lives of both innocents and murderers as well as giving the murderers a chance to reform. If it is found that the accused person is innocent, then the accused person could be released. "Also, voters, remember, only the worst get murdered. First degree premeditated murder gets capital punishment, while crimes of passion would not. These are people who made a conscious choice to do evil." --> In the past, crime of passion have gotten the death penalty. Such an example can be found in the execution of Bruce Callins. In 1980, Callins went to a dancing establishment named Norma's Lounge, told the bartender to put the club's receipts in a bag, and ordered the patrons to empty their pockets. Allen Huckleberry, who was sitting at the bar, did not surrender his wallet quickly enough and Callins shot him in the neck, causing him to bleed to death. The murder of Allen Huckleberry was not premeditated. It was based on passion alone. Therefore, my opponent is wrong in his statement that only the worst of murderers get the capital punishment. Capital punishment is not the only solution to preventing more murders. Life imprisonment would also get the job done without killing another life in the process.