Resolved: The US should abolish the death penalty

As my position say, the United States should abolish the death penalty.Racism:My opponent has showed a graph saying that only 56% of whites and 35% of African Americans where put to death by the death penalty.Now let's look at the current death row. As you can see, the population of African Americans that are on the death row has increased 6%That's not all. Take a lot of this graph: (Source #2 )The population of there are way more White people in the United States than there are African, at almost 5 times more.This proves that the Death Penalty executers are raciest. My opponent says that you cannot put a price tag on justice. Yes, we need to have those people to not be associated in another crime, but, there are families out there. For example, would you sacrifice your mother for doing something that she couldn't help doing? I wouldn't. After being so close to death, she might as well learn from our mistakes. That's what prison does for use. If that's not enough, you might as well send her to rehabilitation camp. Other then that, you have o hire physicians and doctors, people who would be paid just to stand there and murder that person.My opponent says that the Death Penalty deters crime. The answer? No, the death penalty does not deter crime. "[T]here is no credible evidence that the death penalty deters crime more effectively than long terms of imprisonment. States that have death penalty laws do not have lower crime rates or murder rates than states without such laws. And states that have abolished capital punishment show no significant changes in either crime or murder rates. The death penalty has no deterrent effect. Claims that each execution deters a certain number of murders have been thoroughly discredited by social science research. People commit murders largely in the heat of passion, under the influence of alcohol or drugs, or because they are mentally ill, giving little or no thought to the possible consequences of their acts. The few murderers who plan their crimes beforehand -- for example, professional executioners -- intend and expect to avoid punishment altogether by not getting caught. Some self-destructive individuals may even hope they will be caught and executed."From the The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) "A number of papers have recently appeared claiming to show that in the United States executions deter serious crime. There are many statistical problems with the data analyses reported. This article addresses the problem of 'influence,' which occurs when a very small and atypical fraction of the data dominate the statistical results. The number of executions by state and year is the key explanatory variable, and most states in most years execute no one. A very few states in particular years execute more than five individuals. Such values represent about 1 percent of the available observations. Reanalyses of the existing data are presented showing that claims of deterrence are a statistical artifact of this anomalous 1 percent." "Richard Berk, PhD, Professor of Criminology and Statistics at the University of Pennsylvania" This shows that the death penalty does not deter crime.