Death Penalty in Society, does it have a place

So Im going to put them back into Contentions because I think it is easier to read a flow the arguments Contention I I would like to say that I never advocated the "eye for an eye" policy but simply for a just punishment for such a hanus crime. My opponent over exaggerates the situation, there are better solutions. Like in Louisiana recently the governor passed chemical castration as a punishment for convicted rapists, a just punishment for the crime committed. The punishment has to be a fair punishment to prevent further intrusions. Also if you kill most killers it wont solve everything but it will be a good start to solving the problems. Contention II A. Nothing is ever fool proof we are humans we do make errors there is nothing you can do to stop that from happening. If we can get to around 99 percent certainty then that is leaps and bounds better than a lot of the other policies that the government does. Even if one innocent person dies then it would be a sacrifice for the betterment of society, it is a core democratic value called common good. B. It is not a racist punishment, the people have been tried and found guilty. If there is more ethnicity's on death row that does not necessarily institute that it is a "racist" punishment. This assumption only promotes racism which is bad Contention III Any right can be taken away if the consequences call for it. If its such an unalienable right shouldn't be taken away what should we do for those who take it away? The death penalty is the correct way of dealing with those who have been convicted for doing such. Also the government isn't the one who necessarily will take away the life the power lies within the court and more specifically the jury. Also as I have stated humans make errors but 99 percent is still better than what most policies do and it is the right choice. Contention IV Let me reiterate and reword my previous argument. The morals in the death penalty lie in the fact that you are making the world a safer place. The morals are what you use to help keep bad people away from those who have not committed such crimes. Our morals are needed because the death penalty is far from cold blooded murder. Contention V So my opponent calls me ignorant yet he provides no evidence to prove my argument. And now any stats he might use I cant even refute so right now I refute them all :P. The fact is that is a choice they make, the statistics are real the fact remains that the cost between lethal injection and life in prison are astronomically apart. Logically think about how much each would cost with any use of your brain it is easy to see that you will save money by using the death penalty. Contention VI If the death penalty is so fallible why has it been in use since the beginning of time. In these cases that the supreme court has dealt with every case but one has allowed the death penalty to continue. That one time it wasn't was the time in the 1970's that I listed in contention VII and that was a disaster in itself. But now we have gotten to the point where there are almost no wrongful convictions as you keep trying to find. This is a time tested punishment that has worked but never to the fullest of its ability. If you want to see this go here . http://www.oyez.org... Contention VII That is my point exactly Texas may have the highest murder rate yet has the most executions. The problem is that's still only less than 100 deaths a year. With plenty more on death row and even more with life in prison. What needs to happen to make it a deterrent is to kill several hundred a year. Criminals would have to think twice for fear they might get the death penalty over life in prison. The rates are also much lower in other countries because there are less people in prison to begin with. The US has one of the largest populations in the world so even if we only have 1 percent of something that still can be the same as 10 percent in another country. Vote Pro on this argument because as of now I have proven that this is a humane punishment that needs to be exercised even more in our society. I never said torture or televising it like my opponent keeps trying to fill your heads with. I am advocating for a penalty for those who take the life out of others in cold blood. We must use this moral action.