The Death Penalty/Capital Punishment should be eliminated

I doubt my opponent has even looked on my points for he has not touched on them and many of his points have already been disproven by the ones I put down. Let's get crackin'. Refutation 1. If something gives closure and happiness to the victim's family, and it is bad, it shouldn't be done. The death penalty is a mischievous case of revenge for the victim's family. Killing one life will not bring another life back. You just end with two dead people. In some cases, no closure is even given to the family. Jennifer Bishop said, "Our sister Nancy and her husband Richard were a young couple expecting their first child when they were shot to death in their home. They loved and valued life; our sister was carrying life within her when she died a terrifying and brutal death. Her last act as she was dying was to write a message of love in her blood. We can't imagine making the death of another human being her memorial. " Sharon Borcyzewski, whose daughter was murdered in 1997, Arizona Republic, 12 Apr. 2004. - "The assumption is all too often made that all murder-victim family members want the death penalty. The horrible reality for those of us who have lost loved ones to homicide is that nothing that happens to their murderers is going to bring our loved ones back. " 2. I already stated that it is not an effect deterrent. See Round 1, contention 4. 3. Justice is not better served. See Round 1, contention 1. 4. The victims are already dead, so you can't be sympathetic to them. Our justice system is based on the death penalty, and you're saying that that is more sympathetic. So let's switch to life-in-prison! If the goal is to obtain more punishment, solitary confinement or prison is better. 5. How does it provide a deterrent for those that are going to die, if they can't ever murder someone again, seeing as they're getting killed by the death penalty. .. 6. Almost all uncertainty. Innocent people will be killed, no matter what. In 2004, Gordon Randy Steidl was released from death row after being discovered innocent. That is more modern and we still have the same technology! Ronald Kitchen was freed from charges in 2009, one year ago! We had DNA testing back then, but we still made that error! For further innocence, consult this site. . http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org... 7. Murderers will be put in such an extreme jail that they will never be able to escape. 8. Well, there's overpopulation in the death row, and those people continuously build up! 9. Um, could you please clarify? 10. No, that's untrue. Annual cost of death penalty: $137 million a year Annual cost of penalty with reforms: $232.7 million a year A system using life-in-prison: $11.5 million a year Research conducted by California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice Maryland spent $137 million on a SINGLE execution. In New Jersey, death penalty cost taxpayers $253 million! These numbers are quite outrageous and would massively reduce with life-in-prison. New Points 1. Not implemented fairly. Because Capital Punishment is resolute and irreconcilable, its application is either reserved for extremities, or for judicial statements regarding the severity of the law concerned. Thus, it may be either used exceedingly sparingly or overtly. Any sentence that welds such influential decision changing power cannot possibly be applied equally and fairly across all Judges/Juries deciding the sentence. As such, it should be removed as sentence the court has over the people. Steward F. Hancock, former associate judge of New York's Court of Appeals. - "As a matter of common sense, one would have to conclude, as the court in Massachusetts did, that since racial prejudice affects the death sentencing systems throughout the United States and since it has affected death sentencing under the previous statute, it will affect death sentences under the present statute as well. " 2. Cruel and unusual. Against Constitution. The death penalty is severe in the damage it causes to the human body. Inflicting mortal damage on the human body, whether by electric chair or lethal injection, is equivalent to or even worse than torture, and violates basic human rights that are inherent and irrevocable. The death penalty is also cruel and torturous in the way that it inflicts psychological damage on convicts that wait on death row. For these reasons, the death penalty should be abolished. I look forward to the next round and response.