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Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Life in jail

Thats just as bad as murder! Its like paying someone to murder someone else. Did you do the murder NO but your associated with it. The way I see it people who murder shouldn't be sentenced to death or spend life in the jails we have here there to nice. The prison should be one of those high security no TV nothing fun type of prisons.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Life in jail

there is an overpopulation of inmates in our jails in the united states.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Death Penalty

why would you want to keep them in prison for life using your well earned taxes to support them, if they are convicted of a serious enough crime and there is enough evidence against them and there's no reason of doubt then yup death penalty simple
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Death Penalty

Only if there is legit proof that the accused is the murderer, the penalty shall be used. Hammurabi Code, an eye for an eye, leg for a leg, a life for a life. Dont wanna end up dead dont kill.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Death Penalty

As the bible says "an eye for an eye" will a murder, we should execute them humanly.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Life in jail

The bible should not be a source for US law. There is a little thing called the Establishment Clause in the Constitution.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Death Penalty

I agree that religion should be kept out of the government but I don't think we should be wasting our tax money keeping child killing pedophiles alive forever.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Life in jail

Nothing is 100%, if there is a chance that person being sentenced to death is innocent then it isn't a practical action to sentence them to something permanent.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Life in jail

But Ghandi says "an eye for an eye" will make the whole world blind.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Death Penalty

Who cares if Ghandi said that?we should not be wasting our tax money keeping these child killing pedophiles alive.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Death Penalty

Oh god, something I can agree with you on. Child Killing Pedophiles don't really deserve the right to live. I mean, they kill CHILDREN... AND RAPE THEM. How retarded do you have to be to respect the life of a child rapist?And should they ever get out...? Who's to say they won't do it again.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Death Penalty

This is so unfair! Why do victims lose lives and the killers, the people who deserve to lose life don't?! Of course there must be exceptions. Those that killed less than 3 people without other crimes not die. Those that sell secrets to an enemy country must die. People who killed less than 7/8 people with families must not die. Those that kill children are closer to death penalty although he/she deserves to live. Only adults.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Death Penalty

I'd rather be put to death than sit in a jail cell and rot for the rest of my life. But i also believe in an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Death Penalty

Death penalty are given to those who have comitted a very serious crime. i believe that the government won't give a death sentence to a random person. so why let those 'evil' on the street to let them do the same mistake over again or putting them into a jail their whole life-long that will takes a large number of the government's tax? thus, it is much better to put them into a death row, and it's also much more better for them rather than letting them suffer by spending the rest of their time in prison.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Death Penalty

um, hate to be the voice of reason, but, why waste my tax money feeding, housing,clothing, and guarding dangerous criminals such as murderers or rapists, when one bullet will punish them all the same!
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Death penalty

I agree with the death penalty, but only in specific cases where the person has committed very serious crimes, there are now many ways for a person to be released from prison after having committed horrible things and are likely to return to Commit the same crimes, these people the only thing they do is evil to humanity do not contribute anything good and it is true that we all have the right to life, but if someone who killed many people he did not respect the rights of victims, only did. So, why does he deserve to be respected his right to live? In addition, I think there is a stimulus not to commit such crimes, people seeing that it will have huge consequences, it will be more likely to avoid certain crimes because they know that it can cost them life. The biggest challenge facing countries where the death penalty is to be practiced is that they must maintain their transparency, avoid irregularities in law enforcement and injustice, I think those countries should be supervised by large organizations to be As fair as possible since they are deciding on the life of a person and should not allow any mistake.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Death Penalty

death sentence are given to those who have comitted a very serious crime. i believe that the government won't give death sentence to a random person. death sentence are only for intentionally kill, it is not for accidental kill
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Death Penalty

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Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Death penalty

Life in prison IS a death sentence, just a very slow one. What good does it do? Prisons don't provide justice. I'm against the jail system in general and in favour of physical punishments. Our society needs this right now with our current crime-pandemic. Prisons only make petty thieves worse. We all know this.If you're worried about innocent people being sentenced to death by mistake, pass a law that says a person must be given 5 years of jailtime BEFORE he is executed. Those 5 years will be enough time to still prove his innocence. After that much time has passed we must conclude that evidence for his innocence simply doesn't exist. He will then be executed in a manner that suits the severity of the crime. I would vote for death by shooting as a modern version of stoning. No death sentence should relate to strangulation. Justice is always bittersweet.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Life in jail

If there was a guaranteed way to determine guilt I would be in favor of the death penalty. The problem is that we make mistakes all the time. Any justice system is flawed. People are wrongly accused all the time and set free as new evidence comes to light.How do you give a man back his life; if you've made a mistake?
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Death Penalty

Well I am just as against executing innocent people as you but if we have proof they raped & killed those innocent kids then we should not waste any of our tax money on them.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Life in jail

When has proof ever been guaranteed? There have been cases of positive ID, airtight evidence and new evidence has completely exonerated them. The point is that if you make a mistake there is no way you can ever take it back.This alone is all you need to invalidate any argument in favor of the death penalty.But I do have more.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Death Penalty

what if we have it on camera? what if they confess? does that count as evidence?we are in no shape to be wasting tax money keeping evil people alive forever. we should use it on more productive stuff that benefits us.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Life in jail

How many people are going to be confessing if they know they're going to die? Which brings to light another reason why you don't want the death penalty. Having the death penalty will reduce the number of people confessing.On camera...c'mon any photo/video can be faked...there really is no foolproof system. Which is why even the courts make allowances for a reasonable doubt...what ever the hell that means.Will you ever get off the 'tax money' pony? Others have mentioned how much more it is to kill someone then to sentence them to life in prison. So your one assertion could be shot to hell.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Death Penalty

Well what do you consider 100% correct proof?what if they find DNA evidence? what if they find something else?
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Life in jail

I would like to say "Life outside of Society", but this is close enough.Laws, being created by man, only seek to punish people for acting out in a way that is commonly seen as disruptive. If a man murders another, which I believe to be the greatest crime, expel him but don't commit the same crime against him. It's an ultimate hypocrisy, for the state to kill a man because he broke a law that exists to save people from being killed by other men... The only difference being, one man deciding to kill another, and many men deciding to kill another.  What's the difference between many people killing one or more people, and one man killing one or more people? There is no difference, the point is, a man's life however worthless it is to you or however tainted, is still a life. No one asks a murderer if killing a person for wearing pink feels like killing a person that has killed another... It may be equally as justified.  My point is, that it's not that the man deserves to die, but it's that the man simply broke a societal contract. Unfortunately we cannot send our murders and rapists (whatever they are) to another planet... We have to keep them in prisons. Hrm, but what's the use in paying taxes to a man that doesn't live by our societal standards... Doesn't that create a bigger problem?(I'm drinking, sorry)
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Life in jail

What's the difference between many people killing one or more people, and one man killing one or more people? 11. 12 if you count the judge.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Death penalty

Anyone can understand it in their own way. For some people death penalty is better than life in prison, who are respect their freedom and who are consider that it is better to die than someone to judge them. But there persons for whom are life is more expensive, someone have families or someone can have a plan for prison break...
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Life in jail

Difficult debate. Felt inclined to point out two things. As to the issue of guilt/innocence...innocent persons have been put to death in the U.S. However, the state(s) that did so believed (i.e. "knew") that they were guilty. Come to think of it, at one time, we "knew" the world was flat. One innocent person killed by the state is one too many if it is not a full-proof system. To the issue of cost...Urban Institute completed a study (Life in prison vs. DP) for the state of Maryland. Findings: cost of DP (trial, attorney costs, investigator costs, mitigation specialists, expert witnesses, etc) is substaintially more than life in prison. With the appellate process as it is, it takes years and years, and much money to go from Grand Jury Indictment to needle. Several other states including Kentucky (cannot think of the others off the top of my head) have had the same study completed with the same results. Virginia...has not had the study done as of yet.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Death Penalty

So why is this a difficult debate? You added two things to support life in prison???
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Death Penalty

I think it is a difficult debate regardless of the two things I added to support life in prison. With all the facts and how they look on paper, to me, its a struggle b/w the facts and the thought of being a victim or having someone close to me be a victim. Its easy for me to sit back and support this or that. But then I think, "what if i had a young daughter who was raped and killed...what if my mother was tortured and killed?" I tend to think that my initial reaction would be to kill the person who did this. I only hope after time that I would be able to make a smart and rational decision...as hard as that would be.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Life in jail

Thou shalt not kill. Not, "thou shalt not kill innocent people only."
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Life in jail

How ridiculous to quote from a God that has killed millions.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Life in jail

God works in myseterious ways. Are you saying he is wronged?
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Death Penalty

While the Bible says, "Thall shalt not kill," it also says that, "Who so sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man." That is Genesis 9:6. But that is the only time a pro-death verse is in the Bible right? Wait, no. Check Romans 13:1-4. And Revelations 13:10. And Acts 25:11. And God even says He will smite those who do not use the death penalty. Deuteronomy 19:11-13. Before you quote the Bible, do your research. http://www.biblebelievers.com/jmelton/punish.html Or just check the Bible.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Death Penalty

While the Bible says, "Thall shalt not kill," it also says that, "Who so sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man." That is Genesis 9:6. But that is the only time a pro-death verse is in the Bible right? Wait, no. Check Romans 13:1-4. And Revelations 13:10. And Acts 25:11. And God even says He will smite those who do not use the death penalty. Deuteronomy 19:11-13. Before you quote the Bible, do your research. [http://www.biblebelievers.com/jmelton/punish.html] Or just read the Bible.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Death Penalty

Those guys raped & killed innocent kids!We shouldn't be wasting our tax money on them!
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Life in jail

so that makes it right to disobey God. an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Death Penalty

We shouldn't be letting religion control our government.& god would support the death penalty.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Death Penalty

Which God Slash?Unfortunately I believe that the God of the Bible would support the death penalty.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Death Penalty

all gods.mainly the god of the bible.I know he would support the death penalty. he killed evil people himself.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Life in jail

He also killed innocent people too. The minimum length for an argument is 50 characters. The purpose of this restriction is to cut down on the amount of dumb jokes, so we can keep the quality of debate and discourse as high as possible.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Death Penalty

who god? yeah I know about all the innocent people he killed.I'm not christian I'm a secular agnostic.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Life in jail

How do you know that the person being sentenced to death isn't innocent? Hardly anything is 100% with prosecutions, if the person needs to be persuaded into jail there is a chance he/she might not be guilty. Sentencing an innocent man to death is wrong to me personally, whether or not it isn't to any God.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Life in jail

Maybe we shouldn't, but we should let it control out moral judgement.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Life in jail

Again, I'd like to point out that God really doesn't have much of a place in our Law.Please and thank you.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Life in jail

The death penalty, in my opinion is rather harsh. This debate has been brought up so many times it makes my head spin. A life in prison is a better one than none at all.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Death Penalty

Well what those pedophiles did was harsh. They raped & killed innocent children.We shouldn't be wasting our money keeping those bastards alive.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Life in jail

Again... there is nearly never a fail-safe, sending an innocent man to death isn't something you can take back.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Life in jail

I'm not necessarily against the death penalty, if it were 100% possible to determine guilt, and if it were a family member, loved one, or close friend pulling the switch. In a world where guilt could be determined without any doubt, I think that moral judgement should be left to those closest to the person, and not the general population.But unfortunately people are killed every year, that later evidence finds were not guilty. If this happens even once in history it should give us as a people, who hold life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness as the most important rights, pause. But it happens all the time, and should be unacceptable to us.We're used to it. But pretend for a second that this is the first you ever heard of the death penalty, and pretend you just found out sometimes innocent people are killed by the State. This does not sound like the actions of a civilized people.Outside of that, life in prison is cheaper for States than condemning one to death. It turns out lawyers and judges are expensive.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Death Penalty

Well keeping them alive forever is also expensive.We shouldn't be wasting our tax money on them.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Death Penalty

plus they have come out with technology lately that is 95 percent accurate at sensing lies
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Life in jail

><unless someone's lying about the results.At any rate, 95% isn't good enough when a potentially innocent life hangs in the balance.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Life in jail

We shouldn't be wasting our tax money on them.Follow the logic:Life in prison costs taxpayers X.Death penalty costs X + Y.X + Y > XTherefore tax payers are "wasting more money" by pursuing death.Listen. Like I said, I don't disagree with the theory of the death penalty. Murders, rapists, child pornographers, etc. literally should die for a better society. There is not reason to allow them to continue life.Society though is complex. It is impossible in any society at this point in time to both pursue justice and correct justice, and to at the same time support a death penalty. We simply have not evolved to that point.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Life in jail

heck no death penalty for me i dont want to die well unless i k\did somthing REALLY that bad but i stand as no
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Life in jail

The other point is that our justice system is based on not violating a persons rights. If I acquire illegal evidence it is thrown out and you could be set free even though I have absolute proof of your guilt. How can you have a justice system that will let a guilty man go if we violate his rights but will commit the ultimate violation of a mans rights by killing him? That's insane.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Death Penalty

If his rights are violated then yes, the illegal evidence must be thrown out. I'd hate to think that anyone could have illegal evidence brought against them in order to prosecute. That'd allow for all sorts of corruptness. I'd be 100% concerned if illegal evidence could be brought against me. Anyone could fall victim to that. The police and prosecuters must dot all the I's and cross all the T's in order to bring a fair and accurate prosecution against someone. Defense attorneys are not there to determine innocence or guilt, but to uphold the constitution and bill of rights. They are the police of the police so to speak. If we allow prosecutors to bring illegal evidence against people then we all set ourselves up to be illegally prosecuted.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Life in jail

Lest we become as barbarous as they, life in prison should suffice for Murder One!
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Death Penalty

So you think that someone who has claimed the life of someone else deserves the comfortable environment of a prison? Being in prison is a luxury to some of these people that are thrown into jail. Should we have to pay for these pieces of trash to live comfortably in air conditioning with no bills to pay and free food? I am not saying jail is a nice place to be but it is better than living in hell some other countries.Meant to be opposed
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Life in jail

How can you be so sure that someone has taken a life?The minimum length for an argument is 50 characters. The purpose of this restriction is to cut down on the amount of dumb jokes, so we can keep the quality of debate and discourse as high as possible.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Life in jail

That is true, mistakes are made all the time. Sending innocent people to jail happens on a regular basis. I have read cases where the judges are so oblivious to the truth that they might as well be blind. Good point , +1 for you.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Death Penalty

If we are sure they raped & killed those innocent children then we should let them die. We shouldn't be wasting our tax money on them.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Life in jail

Slash---How does saying the same thing over and over again add to this debate. >>>If we are sure they raped & killed those innocent children then we should let them die. We shouldn't be wasting our tax money on them.<<<Yes we shouldn't be wasting our tax money on them. but how can we ever be sure? It's been said that killing someone actually costs more money? I have no idea if that is true but the point is that you're not saving as much money as you'd think.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Life in jail

Thats not what he is saying. He is talking about accidental imprisonments, he is saying if there was a full proof way to determine guiltiness then that route should be taken.There is a myriad of wrong accusations that are not proven to be false until after that man is dead or been in prison for years and years.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Death Penalty

We have good technology today that can prove innocence.What if they have the killing on camera? or something else.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Life in jail

Well we do have the camera but we also have hear say, what he is trying to say is that determining the crime is not full proof look at the Caylee Anthony case they cannot prove the mother actually did anything, when she could be the murderer of her child.Hell look at O.J. Simpson, need more examples?