The Death Penalty

Apologies & Rebuttals. In your fourth point you say I was bias. You are correct, I didn't actually provide any proof for what I said about the felonies and I apologize for that. I will make sure to have sources and facts for everything I say. I will also make sure I don't make false assumptions before doing my research. Rebuttal 1. I will now make a rebuttal to your rebuttal. In your first point, you say that: 1)Osama bin Laden was a justified killing. 2)He did not receive a death penalty, rather an ordered killing. All throughout this debate, you have been talking about morals and whether or not its right to kill someone for killing someone. Yet you're saying Osama bin Laden"s assassination was justified? Why is one man"s killing justified over another"s? You"re correct, he didn't receive a death penalty. You"re also correct that we"re arguing about death penalty, not other forms of legal killing. As stated in your first point. However, IF they hadn't assassinated Osama bin Laden, they would've given him a life sentence. So Osama bin Laden"s assassination is relevant to this debate in the sense that without a death penalty, there"s a never ending supplying of criminals that we must supply a place for a life sentence. Rebuttal 2. You keep saying the death penalty is cruel and unusual. If you think about it, so is the life-sentence. I will further explain further down in this round. Contradictions. First let me make some things clear. "You contradicted yourself multiple times. " In your second point you said, "The death penalty also is cruel and unusual, for if it isn't then what is worse than it?" Then in your fifth point you said, "Life in prison can be so boring it could be worse than death therefore having rehabilitative effects ." You answered the question you asked in your second point and you didn't even answer it in your favor. Which leads me to your second contradiction. In your fifth point, you say, "Life in prison can be so boring it could be worse than death therefore having rehabilitative effects . The death penalty is just all the sudden you are dead. The death penalty does not punish people because it is psychically painless and it is not emotionally painful because you die and you don't reflect on anything. Life in prison is tough and you have your whole life to think about what you have done." You claim that one of the reasons why the death penalty should be abolished is because it is: 1)Cruel and unusual. 2)Not a good enough punishment. Yet, in your third point, you contradict what you say in your fifth point. Your third point: "If a suspect know that he may die he certainly will not plead not guilty thus creating big trials that include the cost of lawyers and prosecutors for both sides, and if a man is sentenced to death, he will appeal the ruling and ask for pardons from the governor and the president. Basically he will drag out the case for so long that the cost of the trial will be enormous. If he was not going to die he might plead guilty or he will be willing to not appeal." In your third point you say that if a suspect knows that s/he may die, s/he will fight harder because s/he doesn't want to die. Yet in your fifth point you say that the death penalty is actually an easy get away. IF the death penalty was actually an "easy get-away", then why would suspects fight harder not to get it? Disputations. 1. The death penalty is not so cruel and unusual, as you have been saying. There are five methods of executing someone when given the death penalty. Although they may seem painful, they are actually the most painless methods of killing someone. 1.When the condemned is fastened into the electric chair, one of the conductors is strapped securely around the head with the bare metal flush against the shaved and wet scalp. "This permits the electricity to be conducted directly into the brain, shutting it off more quickly than the brain can register pain. 2.Hanging causes death by snapping the neck of the condemned around the second vertebrae"instantly shutting off the brain"s ability to communicate with the rest of the body, and causing the heart to stop within seconds. 3.The firing squad involves five men shooting the heart of the condemned with high-powered rifles. "The heart is completely destroyed and unconsciousness follows within seconds. 4.The gas chamber is now no longer forced on the condemned, because it frequently appeared to cause more pain than was expected or acceptable. "The gas is usually hydrogen cyanide, which inhibits mitochondrial respiration in every cell of the entire body, theoretically shutting off the brain like a light switch. But it requires that the condemned breathe deeply. 5. Eight states have used a single-drug method for executions--a lethal dose of an anesthetic (Arizona, Georgia, Idaho, Missouri, Ohio, South Dakota, Texas, and Washington). Six other states have announced plans to use a one-drug protocol, but have not carried out such an execution (Arkansas, California, Kentucky, Louisiana, North Carolina, and Tennessee). 2. Life in prison is inhumane. You"re putting someone in a cage, depriving them of any chance of freedom, and also leaving them to be vulnerable of rape and even murder. In 2011-12, 4.0% of prison inmates and 3.2% of jail inmates reported experiencing one or more incidents of sexual victimization. Even if someone is sentenced to a solitary life sentence, there"s still a psychological cruelty to it. Even without the rape. Herman Bell is a prisoner and he talks about the psychological side of a life-sentence. You can read his whole article in the link below but heres a small portion of it. "Loneliness is a prominent fixture in a long-termer"s life. S/he wakes with it and beds with it. It can lead to mental depression that is marked by sadness, inactivity, difficulty in thinking and concentration, to a significant increase or decrease in appetite and time spent sleeping, to feelings of dejection and hopelessness, and sometimes to suicidal tendencies. In such a state the will is fragile: Your hair might come out in clumps. You might pick at your skin, at your nose, or at both. Your lack of hygiene may cause noses to flair, people to talk about you, and even to avoid you. Another prominent feature of prison life is tension, which is so rife that it is worn like an extra layer of skin. Anger is yet another feature: an unpaid debt, a slight " real or imagined " a look, an unguarded word and it flares-up like a volcanic eruption. A person could well take a life or lose his or her own, or wear some hideous, disfiguring scar because of it." He goes on to talk about other things, but what is more humane and less cruel? Death penalty or a life-sentence? Realistically, they're both cruel, unusual, and inhumane. But we live in a world where being humane isn't an option. So it comes down to what is better for the innocent people in the U.S. Even if someone is given a life-sentence, turns their life around, and gets released. Is it really safe for them to be out on the streets again? Also, by killing another person and breaking the law, should they lose the right be treated humanely? Sources. http://tinyurl.com... http://tinyurl.com... http://tinyurl.com... http://tinyurl.com...