Topic: We should abolish capital punishment
A basic principle of punishment is that it should be proportional to the crime, and therefore capital punishment is the only legitimate response to a crime such as first degree murder.
A state that outlaws murder cannot then turn around and murder prisoners in the name of the law. It is perverse and unjust.
abolish capital punishment so that we never put an innocent person to death
Abolishing capital punishment is impossible. It is mostly used today by dictatorial countries and religious monarchies, and they don't obey world norms and suggested human rights
Abolishing capital punishment means the victims' families will pay their taxes to support offenders who ruined their and their loved ones'  lives. There is nothing merciful or humane in this; it is a sick, cruel joke.
Abolishing death penalty means abandoning the poor -who suffer the most from high crime rates -  only so that the elites could feel good about themselves.
Absolute judgments may lead to people paying for crimes they did not commit
Administering lethal injection violates the Hippocratic oath of doctors.
All executions violate the right to life and are a gross affront to human dignity
all guilty people should be punished and some criminals are simply impossible to rehabilitate and release.
all life is important and should be protected
an eye for an eye, if someone were to murder my loved one among many others they deserve nothing less than to perish themselves for the crime.
any kind of punishment to the kids is harassment and should be banned by the law.
As long as death penalty is kept, this confirms that our society is founded on violence, and that violence and brute force solve. This mindset perpetuates the circle of violence and doesn't allow to escape it.
As the only actor that can legitimately wield the use of force, the state has an reparative obligation to victims and their families to seek retribution against criminals, and this includes the use of capital punishment.
because there are a lot of innocent people who are in prison there is a good chance that you would kill a person and would later find out that they did not commit the crime
Being killed by lethal injection or being electrocuted is not always smooth and painless, sometimes it causes a painful death
By abolishing capital punishment we will send a powerful message that taking a human life unacceptable under any circumstances. In the long run, this message will have a stronger effect than alleged deterrence of the executions.
By taking away the right to life of his victim, a murderer forfeits his own right to life.
capital punishment acts as the ultimate deterrent - serious crime levels will drop due to the risk of paying the ultimate price.
capital punishment acts as the ultimate deterrent for the most heinous of crimes, and saves vast amounts of money that would be spent keeping such offenders in jail for ever more.
capital punishment allows for equal justice type punishment and a means for the victim's family members to have some type of closure to such a horrible episode in their lives.