We should bring back gladiators for the death penalty

Yes, crime is uncivilized. But the fact that uncivilized things happen does not mean we should haphazardly abandon all traces of civility by following through with this. I wouldn't necessarily be against using prisoners for work if conditions were humane. But your arguemnet against re-education is completely wrong. Sure, people could fake their way through the system. But if we shifted the prison system towards rehabillitation. The reason people are more likely to commit another crime is because they're spent the last however many years of their life being punished, they have no education and we've given them no real chance of a job. They system is meant to punish at the moment, and these people who made a mistake and want to get better aren't given a chance. The death penalty has never been a real deterrent. As Source 2 shows, 88% of Criminologists believe it's not a deterrent. We can never be 100% sure of anyone's guilt. There's always a chance that the , so this system wouldn't work. We've seen this in the statistics. The juries are sure in all these cases where they're being sentenced to death, but 4% were wrong. There's always a chance that evidence could come about exonerating anyone, so my opponent's claim that it'll only happen if the jury is 100% just dismisses this issue against the evidence. We already have a system where if the jury isn't sure the man doesn't get executed. That's not working. Poor people are most definitely forced into crime. When you're growing up in areas with undeveloped infrastructure with no real job prospects, no family to support you and the only option to support your family is crime, yes, they're being forced to it. Also, you've failed to address how the rich would use their wealth to take advantage of this system like they've done with the current system. This wouldn't even work as a deterrent, because the death penalty hasn't. We do not want violence to become more prevalent in society. That would become a bad thing. Raising the general violence of a society just lowers the standard of living for everyone. You ask did the gladiator arenas make Rome less civil? Yes, quite frankly, it did. It led to a culture that exonerated the glory of violence above all else. China and India were fairly civilized at the time. I don't know why you seem to exclude them because they're not in the West. As we can see with Source 3, Crime was rampent. You make no attempt to justify why you think the crime rate wasn't high, just saying that and making no more mention of it. Here, this shows the massive injustice of your system. The family will see the man who ruined their lives get off. They don't get some sort of utopia, but they get off. Your response to them and their struggle in a shrug and saying "They don't get utopia!" This system is massively unjust. All in all, we can see that this system is hugely uncivilized and brutal, we can see it would lead to the death of many innocent people, it unfairly victimizes the poor, it is hugely unjust and it increases crime and the glorification of violence, We can see with this that this is a broken and absurd system, and we should in no way stand for it. Thank you. Source 2: http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org... Source 3: http://www.historyextra.com...