Death Penalty

For this round, I will Rebuttal once more of why the Death Penalty is necessary society. How I will do this is by, once more, by taking a quote and providing a Rebuttal on why the Death Penalty is necessary. As well as tying my Rebuttal's to my argument.For Example Back on March 17, 2015 Cecil Clayton was put to death without no legal reason in the year 1972 Mr.Cecil Clayton sustained a work related injury to his brain in a saw-mill accident and later after that he was diagnosed with dementia but before his diagnosis he had Violent impulses and Schizophrenia and in 1983 it got so bad he decided to check him into a mental asylum or institution during his brain MRI it was revealed that he was missing his frontal lobe which deals with problem solving and impulse control.A picture of his brain is shown below in the link.My opponent continues the debate about the mental illness of people. In the previous round, I stated: "I go with the idea that if the individual is potential harm to society, they should be executed for the protection of others". Do I still stand with this idea, of course because why should we protect those who already decided their fate? Believe me, I know about mental illnesses especially when my younger brother has one (Autism); and its his fate of whether or not he gets in trouble. The same applies to these individuals, but for the sake of argument; how many individuals in prison have a mental illness. Stated from "Mental Health America"(1), it states: "It is estimated that 5-10 percent of people on death row have a serious mental illness". How many recieve the death penalty, according to the article only 3 percent of mental health inmates recieved the Death Penalty. That is pretty low for something to be considered "serious" because not many prisoners have a mental illness. And those who do have a mental illness and go on death row balances everything out, so "special priviledges" aren't existant in prison. Those who commit a serious enough crime deserve to be put to death, even those who are slightly different.There are many more reasons why the death penalty is bad some are the following "The death penalty system in the US is applied in an unfair and unjust manner against people,largely dependent on how much money they have, the skill of their attorneys, race of the victim and where the crime took place. People of color are far more likely to be executed than white people, especially if the victim is whiteThis respone to those who are against the Death Penalty is very repetitive, that those who are a different race get put to death more than white individuals. First off, this is "bull" because those who are put to death are the ones who decided their fate. I ask my opponent "Who decides to murder someone in cold blood, or rape that woman, or man"? The criminal themselves, and if they decided this; how is it unfair. For the race aspect of the Death Penalty, lets look at a few statistics conducted in 2014 on who has been executed more often. Stated under "Death Penalty Information Center" (2), the amount of race deaths carried out since 1976 showed that 55.4% of those executed were white and 34.7% were Black. That is a huge number difference to what my opponent stated, and would also like to point out that my opponent failed to show any evidence to support his claim.There is something out there called the Brutlation effect and with one major reason why the death penalty as stated and QUOTED below "The death penalty is brutal on society. The brutalization effect suggests that when violence is condoned via the death penalty, more violence occurs. Homicide rates tend to increase around the time of executions, due to legitimation, desensitization, and imitation. The death penalty makes society more dangerous by further increasing violence through the brutalization effect.Then my opponent discusses an effect called the "Brutalization Effect". Do I know this effect, I actually do because of studying both Criminal Justice and Criminology in college. This idea is more so a theory, than an actual fact. Because there has also been many theories that those who commited crime were because of demons, and that society is the main reason crime is ensued. More so ideas, than actual facts. To counter my opponent, I wish to provide a statistic that shows that the Death Penalty deters crime "a 2008 comprehensive review of capital punishment research since 1975 by Drexel University economist Bijou Yang and psychologist David Lester of Richard Stockton College of New Jersey concluded that the majority of studies that track effects over many years and across states or counties find a deterrent effect (3)". The article even states that the use of the death penalty even once actually saves one victim within the country.To conclude, my opponent makes arguments, but fails to provide a whole ton of facts. More so ideas, and a more opinion based argument than anything else. Before I conclude this argument however, I was told to provide a video with the Death Penalty. Here it is: The crime was for the murdering of a father, nd they executed him with letal injection. Like many say "An eye for an eye".Sources:1. http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net...2. http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org...3. http://dailysignal.com...4.