Topic: We should abolish capital punishment
it is possible that we could provide capital punishment to an innocent individual.
it is the most effective deterrent to the worst crimes
it is a waste of hard working people's money to pay for someone that committed atrocious crimes, to stay in a prison for the rest of their lives
It is unjust to force government employees to kill a person the way capital punishment does.
It is unjust to force government employees to take a life.
it kust makes a martyr of the person punished
it will set bad example for others that people can get away with doing anythings and this will certainly increase crime rate
it would save taxpayers from paying for a person to have a room and food for the rest of their natural life if thats their sentence.
it’s expensive to keep prisoners in jail for an unspecified time if they’re sentenced for life, so executing them would save the government a lot of money.
it's inhumane to execute people for crimes.
it's not fool proof enough. the system already mistakenly punishes innocent people at an alarming rate. the risk of an innocent person being put to death is too great.
it's the best deterrant there is to committing heinous crimes.
Jurors feel guilty if they are responsible for sending someone to death row.
Just one life mistakenly taken in the name of justice is too many; capital punishment must be abolished.
keeping inmates on death row is much more costly than life in prison
killers need to be eliminated for the safty of society.
killing people is wrong, no matter what crime they committed
killing someone is never okay even if they are a killer.
killing someone, outside of self defense, is never a positive choice.
knowing that capital punishment is allowed in more than 20 states in usa is a proof that kind of punishment could be productive.
Lethal injections transform the healing profession of medicine into a death producing agent of the state in executing prisoners
life in prison as opposed to capital punishment is not as cruel.
Life sentence is actually not much more merciful than capital punishment
Many death row inmates have been proven to be innocent once new forms of forensic analysis has been invented.
Many executions are botched and thus produce excessive and unjustified pain and torture
many innocent lives were being taken by this profoundly flawed practice
many innocents have been killed as a result of capital punishment.  even one innocent killed is one too many.
many people are falsely executed for crimes they didn’t commit, and if this was abolished that wouldn’t happen.
many people deserve to die for their actions
many people have been wrongly executed for crimes that dna has proven they didn’t commit, and therefore capital punishment should be abolished.
Maybe sometime in the future our society will evolve and heinous crimes cease to be. Until then, however, abolishing capital punishment would amount to betraying the victims and their families.
Mistakes are sometimes made in the law - what if someone is killed who is actually innocent?
Murder is immoral, even when done by a legal system, and capital punishment is just murder.