Resolved: Capital punishment should be abolished

So, this round didn't call for any rebuttal's. So, I will only post my argument. My opponent didn't bestow any definitions in the first round, so I will. Capital Punishment- [1] punishmentbydeathforacrime;deathpenalty. Morality One thing about Capital Punishment, is that it helps maintain the law and lowers crime. Not only dose it do these two things, but it also helps grieving families. In today's society, prisons are being over crowded. So, the government lets outs many prisoners free due to the lack of space. Many of these people whom are set free have committed murder, rape and other terrible crimes. Many of these prisoners when let out, will just continue down to their own path. This leads to my argument over morality. As defined in the dictionary, Morality is [2] The quality of being in accord with standards of right or good conduct: Is it safe to say, that these convicted felons had acted in a moral way when committing such a crime? Would it be moral to let these felons free, and then have them commit the same crime over. Would also be of good conduct of the government to let these felons free knowing what they have committed, but let them free anyways, due to lack of space? [3]"Abolitionists may contend that the death penalty is inherently immoral because governments should never take human life, no matter what the provocation. But that is an article of faith, not of fact. The death penalty honors human dignity by treating the defendant as a free moral actor able to control his own destiny for good or for ill; it does not treat him as an animal with no moral sense." It is more important to protect our society. Letting a prisoner free, whom has committed murder or had raped an innocent person is immoral. "Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth" Constitutional Many people want to argue the fact that, Capital Punishment violated the 8th Amendment, which has to do with "Cruel and unusual punishment" Well, as defined in the dictionary Cruel can be defined as [3] Disposed to inflict pain or suffering: Some states have adopted a new and humane way of carrying out Capital Punishment. [4]"Simply because an execution method may result in pain, either by accident or as an inescapable consequence of death, does not establish the sort of 'objectively intolerable risk of harm' [quoting the opinion of the Court from Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U. S. 825, 842, 846 (1994)] that qualifies as cruel and unusual... Kentucky has adopted a method of execution believed to be the most humane available, one it shares with 35 other States... Kentucky's decision to adhere to its protocol cannot be viewed as probative of the wanton infliction of pain under the Eighth Amendment... Throughout our history, whenever a method of execution has been challenged in this Court as cruel and unusual, the Court has rejected the challenge. Our society has nonetheless steadily moved to more humane methods of carrying out capital punishment." So, as you can read, States have adopted more humane way to carry out the procedure, thus not violation the 8th amendment when being called "cruel". Sources: [1] http://dictionary.reference.com... [2] http://www.thefreedictionary.com... [3] http://deathpenalty.procon.org... [4] http://www.thefreedictionary.com... [5] http://deathpenalty.procon.org...