NEWBIE TOURNEY: Executing Criminals is Justified. (Death Penalty Debate)

Thank you for pointing out your contradictory statements, I am okay on challenging them and I have no objections to your strategy. As you stated, you will need to negate all my following arguments regarding this debate, weather the DP (Death Penalty) is justified or not, is it acceptable or justifiable to execute criminals (particularly murderers) or not, does it give justice to the victims, etc. MY ARGUMENTS: Morality and the Death Penalty The definition of morality is the conformity to the rules of right conduct; moral or virtuous conduct [1]. We are human, and humans are moral beings in nature, and in our nature, we appreciate, honor and glorify good deeds and kindness, and we punish and condemn the ones who do bad deeds and cruelty. It is commonly considered morally wrong to kill people, but when does it become justified or right in a way that it is considered moral? We consider self defense, in homicide cases, take for example, where a 14 year old teen shoots two paranoid schizophrenics raping his mother and sister and potentially killing them, the boy saves them from harm and violence, or consider a surgeon seperating conjoined twins, whereas one twin is weaker but can harm the other twin, the doctor kills the weaker child in order to save the other. Do we consider these immoral? If your answer is yes, then do we consider executing criminals acceptable? As I stated in my opening, LWOP (Life Without Parole) has its disadvantages, anything can happen, more potential victims are at risk whereas executing criminals prevents the criminals from committing their crime again, and thus protects the victims. The good overshadows the bad, and the executioner is morally justified in executing the criminal. If you argue that killing is always wrong, then you must agree and accept that killing in self-defense or killing to save another is wrong and unacceptible. Murderers forgo their rights as humans at the moment when they take away the rights of another human, their loss of freedom cannot compare to a loss of life. If you sentence someone for a few years for theft/robbery, then the punishment for murder should be more severe, because human life is more valuable and sacred than money or any item. Some people view that LWOP is much more harsh and hell-like since some prisons are overcrowded. Some people in solitary lose their minds, they become insane, imagine you wake up, eat breakfast, do nothing, eat lunch, do nothing, eat dinner then go to sleep. Nothing to pass the time, nothing to do but seat or lie down. Executing people is not murder. As a moral society of people, we have the moral and ethical duty to punish those who condemn and commit the most heinous of crimes. Therefore, Capital Punishment can be morally justifiable. Financial Issues There are some prisons where prisoners serve their LWOP sentences in a clean air-conditioned room with cable TV and a fancy bed where the prisoner is served breakfast, lunch and dinner everyday, gets personal leisure time and gets the privilege to be visited by relatives and friends. [2] Now, let's say for example that that prisoner is a rich white entrepreneur who murdered two innocent five-year-olds in front of their house, since he is a wealthy guy, he can afford some guys who can handle his legal and sentencing problems and thus, got this prison room. The family of those two victims will be among the taxpayers that pay for his meals and prison electric bills. There are some offers and other activities that the prison offers to the prisoner, and if the prisoner takes advantage of that, then the family will be paying for those via taxes. Now, is that justice? Some people say that DP is more costy than LWOP, but it's not. I'd like to point out that Dudley Sharp, director of JFA stated that the JFA estimates that LWOP cases will cost $1.2 million - $3.6 million more than equivalent death penalty cases. [3] In addition, I'd like to add that some people ignore the fact that the taxpayers cause a long line of appeals from the attorneys of the prisoner serving LWOP. Why should the taxpayer have to pay and support a murderer for an entire lifetime? Preventing More Murders LWOP has some flaws, like a convict going out of prison. As I said, innocent people are at risk by being killed by prisoners when released or escaped from prison. In 1994, the US DOJ found out that 1.2% of those convicted of homicide were arrested for another homicide within three years of their release. [4] So what to do with them? According to a recent study in the Heritage foundation, a few murders can be prevented by executing a person. More studies say that each execution deters an average of 18 murders, (that's according to Emory University professors). They also stated that speeding executions, can strenghten the deterrent effect, if we cut 3 years of death row time, we can deter one potential murder. In conclusion, the DP is 100% effective to prevent more crimes; that killer cannot commit any more crimes once he's executed. It saves lives through prevention and we have statistical evidence to suggest so. [5][6] Biased and Racist? The DP is not biased, it does not punish the poor, it is not racist against people [7]. It is fair, if you say it's unfair, then you would be saying that all punishments are unfair. Do you blame the DP or the Judicial System? The system, like all other systems, are not perfect and we do not know anything, we make mistakes and therefore we learn from those mistakes and fix them. The system is run by the human race and weather we like it or not, some issues against it will occur. Some people also say that some innocent people are being executed, that's not somewhat true, since we do not no if they're innocent or not. We do not know if people are guilty or not. But before we put them on death row, we put them in a fair and righteous trial by an unbiased jury or an unbiased judge. They need to decide, beyond reasonable doubt, that the defendant is guilty or not. The chances of innocent people being executed are extremely low, and it will go lower with the improvement of forensic evidence and technology. If any discrimination against the prisoners happen, it should be corrected, we need to equalize the people, by perhaps making it mandatory to all people with different races charged with capital offense, it's not the poor being punished severely more than the rich, it's the rich not being punished enough. ConclusionThe death penalty is a justifiable way of punishing the people who commit the most heinous of crimes, executing them can protect other innocent people. It is moral in a way. SOURCES USED: [1] . http://dictionary.reference.com... [2] . http://www.theatlantic.com... [3] . http://deathpenalty.procon.org... [4] . http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov... [5] . http://www.heritage.org... [6] . http://www.cbsnews.com... [7] . http://edition.cnn.com...