The death penalty should NOT be allowed

Rebuttals(rebuttal for R1): 67% of prisoners on death row are not released. Where did you get that false fact from? Only a very small percentage are relased. The amount of people on death row who are innocent is 4/100 people. That number is less in prison itself. Life sentence gives prisoners the value of life. So, even if they were innocent (because every system will be flawed), they still will have the gift of life, and not death. 4% percent of people on the death row are innocent, 2.5% of people in a regular prison facility are innocent. The number is higher for death row - and that proves my point. And if there is clear evidence that someone on LWP is innocent, there will not be a need for a parole hearing, the prison will just set them free. (rebuttal for R2): As I have mentioned before, "There is racial and economic discrimination in application of the death penalty: "About 99 percent of the death-row inmates are men. Of the 1,058 prisoners on death row by Aug. 20,1982, 42 percent were black, whereas about 12 percent of the United States population is black. Those who receive the death penalty still tend to be poor, poorly educated and represented by public defenders or court-appointed lawyers." This is a racist and sexist act that happens to frequently to be allowed." Also, Several years after the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, a University of Iowa law professor, David C. Baldus (who died last month), along with two colleagues, published a study examining more than 2,000 homicides that took place in Georgia beginning in 1972. They found that black defendants were 1.7 times more likely to receive the death penalty than white defendants and that murderers of white victims were 4.3 times more likely to be sentenced to death than those who killed blacks." (http://www.nytimes.com...)(rebuttal for R3): If there were no death penalty in the first place, then the media woild not have to cover anything. Sure, the media does influence publicity on criminals, but that is only because the DP opens the door for such publicity. (rebuttal for R4): You make a good point. However, there are not many people who volunteer as excecutors. There is a reason why there are 3 people inserting needles and only one has the poison. There is a reason why 10 people are shooting and only one has the deadly bullet, because it is inhumane. And we all know that. Once when we can accept the deeper meaning of this horific practice, then we can move on from this negative punishment.(rebuttal for R5):While you made a good comparison, as I have mentioned before, "It is hipocritical: Why are we killing people for killing people? Why are we doing the same thing we are punishing others for doing? That is obsurd." That is all I will say for this section.(rebuttal for R6): Once again - I cannot take your percentages seriously because you have not cited any evidence. And saying that one way is more fair then the other is opinionated, we are trying to only focus on the facts. I already explained my argument for this in my rebuttal for section 1. We are starting to go in circles so I will not repeat myself, basically, your R1 & R6 arguments are the same.(rebuttal for R7): Unfortunatly, nowadays we cannot seem to seperate church from state. How come topics like gay marriage and abortion were so hard to find an aswer to? Because our country cannot seem to ceperate the two, and the same will go for this topic.(rebuttal for R8): The same thing for people on death row, it does not always do justice because most cases are not taken seriously either. And ther reason for that is because sosciety looks at these people like animals so they do not hesistate to execute them. And what makes you think that criminals think more like regular people? Pleae siite evidence. Because, "Hare estimates that about 50 - 75% of the prison population meet criteria for antisocial personality disorder but only 15-25% exceed the cut-off point for psychopathy." (https://www.psychologytoday.com...). If that is thinking like normal people to you then I dont know what to say. And as I mentioned in the first round, " There is a better alternative - life without parole: This sentence would make the criminals suffer every single day and be forced to think about what they have done. It is a more harsh sentence because they can not escape the negativity they created - they have to live with it each and every long, boring day. Killing the criminals is an easy way out for them - they will just think; "oh, if I kill people who I hate, then I will die and not have to deal with it." Wouldn't that encourage more criminals to act? This would make crime rates increase."(rebuttal for R9): But plea barganing at the end of the day is not the cost of ONLY THE EXECUTION. We are just talking about the cost of the EXECUTION ITSELF. That is not true. I will use various more websites to prove the cost is higher for the DP then LWP. "Cases without the death penalty cost $740,000, while cases where the death penalty is sought cost $1.26 million. Maintaining each death row prisoner costs taxpayers $90,000 more per year than a prisoner in general population." (http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org...). "The exorbitant costs of capital punishment are actually making America less safe because badly needed financial and legal resources are being diverted from effective crime fighting strategies. Before the Los Angeles riots, for example, California had little money for innovations like community policing, but was managing to spend an extra $90 million per year on capital punishment. Texas, with over 300 people on death row, is spending an estimated $2.3 million per case." (http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org...). " California has spent more than $4 billion on capital punishment since it was reinstated in 1978 (about $308 million for each of the 13 executions carried out) California spends an additional $184 million on the death penalty per year because of the additional costs of capital trials, enhanced security on death row, and legal representation. The study’s authors predict that the cost of the death penalty will reach $9 billion by 2030." (http://deathpenalty.org...). (rebuttal for R10): Thank you for agreeing, but how can ammendments fix this? Where will we get the money to add such ammendments? And I provided many other reasons to go along so this is just the icing on the cake.I'm sorry, but the debating rules state that voters cannot take anything from the comments section and involve it in their votes. So your sources will need to be provided in your final round to count. Just trying to help.OVER TO YOU :) Citations: http://www.nytimes.com...https://www.psychologytoday.com...http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org...;http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org...;http://deathpenalty.org...;