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Debate: Should America ban the death penalty?
Side: Let 'em live

Disclaimer: This is a philosophy I am trying out. I have no guarantees that it is correct.Justice in terms of punishment is something that humans have decided is necessary, but it's just a concept. A murderer being killed doesn't change what happened, it just satisfies people's need for revenge, and fulfills our society's concept of "justice". But what really happened? One person died, then another person died. That's it. Of course, we have guaranteed that the second person can't hurt anyone else anymore, but we can come close to guaranteeing that with a very high security prison. To me, the system's job is one thing: To prevent a similar crime from happening again, not to fulfill a concept that we have invented. Again, this is just a theory of mine. I may or may not believe it myself. But it kind of makes sense to me.
Debate: Should America ban the death penalty?
Side: Let 'em live

Justice is only a concept, but it's an important one. Punishing those who do evil creates a deterrent and solidifies the values that keep people behaving properly. It's one of the main things that allows us to function as a society.
Debate: Should America ban the death penalty?
Side: Let 'em live

I agree, but I guess my questions are: 1. Does the death penalty deter evil more than life in prison? and 2. Is it wrong to kill someone in the name of a concept we invented?
Debate: Should America ban the death penalty?
Side: Let 'em live

The death penalty is useless deterrent of crime because in the states that have them, they are not any more inclined to commit a crime because the threat of death penalty particularly if it is murder. The death penalty is scam because it assuages the self perception of vengeance in the victims eyes. It is a waste of time and money.
Debate: Should America ban the death penalty?
Side: Let 'em live

I think its indisputable that the only justification for taking a life is to save a life.The death penalty is sometimes claimed to save lives through deterrence. However, with life in prison or pretty much any other severe sentence, the benefit to a murderer of killing someone is already far outweighed by the cost. Therefore, murderers are beyond rational cost/benefit calculation and adding to the cost will not create further deterrence.Thus, it has been demonstrated that the death penalty is not justified.
Debate: Should America ban the death penalty?
Side: Let 'em live

Yes, the death penalty should be banned, I have no idea why they still invoke this penalty. You can see why the death penalty should be banned by looking at a single argument.1. Some people think it is worse living in prison in life then dying.2. Some people think it is worse dying then living in prison for life.3. Therefore, dying and living in prison are probably morally equal.4.Living in jail for life costs less money then the death penalty.5. This money which goes to the death penalty which could be spent in prison rises the americans tax payments.6. Whenever the death penalty is performed instead of life in prison, the American is paying more tax then he needs to.7. The American should not have to pay more tax then he needs to because of someone else's actions.8. Therefore, the death penalty should be banned.A few figures to support my argument: Using conservative rough projections, the Commission estimates the annual costs of the present (death penalty) system to be $137 million per year.“The additional cost of confining an inmate to death row, as compared to the maximum security prisons where those sentenced to life without possibility of parole ordinarily serve their sentences, is $90,000 per year per inmate. With California’s current death row population of 670, that accounts for $63.3 million annually.”In addition, it is evident that the death penalty does not deter murder rates. In a chard found on: http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/deterrence-states-without-death-penalty- have-had-consistently-lower-murder-rates#stateswithvwithout,  it shows that the murder rate is higher in death penalty states in the last 15 or so years. The percent dwindles around 10%, which may seem small at first but is actually pretty large when considering all of the deaths. So death penalty somehow increases murder rates, maybe a survey will help us understand why. On blurtit.com, their is a survey that shows 55% of people would prefer the death penalty to life in jail. Why? because life in jail is a plainly bleak existence. So what are the reasons for the death penalty again? Oh yeah, their arent any.
Debate: Should America ban the death penalty?
Side: Let 'em live

people should not be punished for making bad mistakes. if we did then wher would society be today?
Debate: Should America ban the death penalty?
Side: Let 'em live

In judicial administration, there are basically three types of punishments awarded to people who have committed crimes: the first is what are known as "reformative " punishments, in which the purpose of the punishment is to enable the criminal to reform himself. Punishments here would be in the form of community service,jail sentence etc..; the second is what are known as retributive , in which the punishment is in the form of public lashing, cutting off hands or legs etc., which is expected to work as a revenge and should satisfy the person against whom the crime is perpetrated; the third is what is known as "deterrent" punishment, whereby the object of the punishment is to deter any other person from committing similar crimes. Death penalty is usually a deterrent punishment, and it can be argued that many would-be criminals would be deterred from committing the crime if they know the penalty that would meet them is their death.Whether death penalty should be available as an option in a judicial system or not, depends upon the sensitivity of the society to the criminal acts. If some people in that society feel it is "worth it " to commit a crime, because they can serve some term in prison and come back into the society, then it may be necessary to put the fear of life ( death sentence ) into such people by showing that others who have done such crimes have been put to death.The question of whether death sentence should be allowed to continue or not, is therefore dependent upon the society and in general a society that has evolved as a "civilized" society would not need such punishments.America, has no doubt evolved as a civilized society, but it has terrible enemies who would work from within its society and this may be a reason for wanting to continue death penalty. But then, by awarding death penalty to such people, you make martyrs of them. Therefore life sentence would also serve as a better deterrent in such cases. So death penalty should be banned.
Debate: Should America ban the death penalty?
Side: Let 'em live

First off, killing by a person, an army or the state is wrong. Secondly, innocent people are found on death row periodically and some of them have been killed already. Life in prison would guarantee that innocents are not killed.
Debate: Should America ban the death penalty?
Side: Let 'em live

The majority of countries have abolished the death penalty. Most executions took place in these 14 countries: China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, US, Pakistan, Iraq, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Japan, Yemen, Indonesia, Libya and Sudan. I am against the death penalty because we have an imperfect justice system in the U.S. Mistakes are inevitable and not worth any perceived benefit. The debate was formulated using the word America but I think it more appropriate to say should the U.S. ban the death penalty since the U.S. does not have claim to all of America--North, South etc.
Debate: Should America ban the death penalty?
Side: Let 'em live

I think America should ban the death penalty because no man/woman has the right to kill anyone even if the have done something wrong, because i believe that only God should have the power to take people's lives.
Debate: Should America ban the death penalty?
Side: Let 'em live

Exactly! No man, woman, or government has the right to take a life. No matter how justified it is. God is the only being with that power.
Debate: Should America ban the death penalty?
Side: Let 'em live

If one commits a murder, they are for sure the scum of the Earth. If one commits more than one, hell has been specially reserved for them. But in real life, who are we to judge whether someone should live or die. That's an awfully big responsibility on the judges. Rather they should be forced (if convicted of course) to contribute to society, while remaining in prison. You kill someone, fine. You still have the right to appeal, but you must work as a slave or close to that status for the duration of your sentence. It's illogical how we would just lock up a killer, to waste tax dollars rotting in prison, or to kill the person, doing unnecessary things like say giving the person antiseptics before a lethal injection.
Debate: Should America ban the death penalty?
Side: Let 'em live

The death penalty is not used for what it is supposed to be used for.We will kill a man that shoots a man sleeping with his wife but we will not kill a man that has murdered hundreds of women because he can tell you where a few skulls may be.Our Prisons house people that do not need to be locked up as they are not threats to society and then complain they had no room for the molester or rapist. Now they are back on our streets and will probably kill their next victim as we have seen over and over again. Prisons are for people that can not function in our society without menacing other citizens and the death penalty is for those that have committed horrible murders against other human beings. We can not change our entire prison system but we can stop executing people based on the fact they have nothing to give us in return for their life.Examples: Scott Peterson is going to die on death row however Gary Ridgeway (Green River Killer) will spend life in prison because he could tell you where he buried someone 25 years ago. Scott Peterson deserves his fate but he could have received life in prison had he just killed a few more people.If we are not going to use it for serial killers the why do we use it at all?
Debate: Should America ban the death penalty?
Side: Let 'em live

1.)the death penalty violates the right to life...2.)the death penalty also is premediated murder,it demeans the state and makes society more violent!3.)the death penalty is also discriminatory in its application what i mean is that through out the world the death penalty is disproportionately used against disadvantaged people .some condemned prisoners from the most impoverished social classes would not have been sentenced to death if they were from a wealthier sector of society!!!!!
Debate: Should America ban the death penalty?
Side: Let 'em live

"Why do we kill people for killing people to show people that killing people is wrong?"-unknownWell said.
Debate: Should America ban the death penalty?
Side: Hang 'em high!

The death sentance is not supposed to show that killing is wrong. People should already know that, and the ones who murder don't care that it's wrong. It's there to show people what will happen to them if they get caught killing.
Debate: Should America ban the death penalty?
Side: Let 'em live

Whats the point of punishing someone that killed someone by killing him. Two wrongs do not make a right
Debate: Should America ban the death penalty?
Side: Worse than death

Those who committed horrible deeds should not be killed. That would be too easy a punishment. Would you prefer someone who killed five children for no reason dead, or in prison till the end of his miserable existence? I know my point of view.
Debate: Should America ban the death penalty?
Side: Hang 'em high!

People who are desperate or deranged enough to murder are usually living a very difficult existence beforehand. Prisoners however, get a roof over their heads with comfortable beds, 3 meals every day, amenities like a gym, personal weight rooms, pools, arcades, billiard halls, you name it. The fact of the matter is that our current judicial system babies our criminals. US prison inmates live better than over half the world population and their only drawback (albeit a significant one) is their confinement.
Debate: Should America ban the death penalty?
Side: Let 'em live

I was going to exclude serial murderers, then realized this was an all or nothing question.1. Murder is wrong. Period. Nothing justifies state sanctioned murder.2. Depending on the person, many people are not the same 20 years later. Some murders are done spare of the moment, it doesn't make it right, but people can change. Crimes done in younger years may not be committed again as an older person.3. There's no need for the death penalty. All you have to do is put them in with the general prison population and it will be taken care of - its all a matter of survival of the fittest and won't cost us a penny.
Debate: Should America ban the death penalty?
Side: Let 'em live

As of last week, here are the stats for US executions - top 8. Texas put to death Cameron Todd Willingham for example who was innocent and has had 41 exonerations since 1989 and many of those people were on death row. Again they were predominantly blacks.Texas 465Virginia 108Oklahoma 96Florida 69Missouri 68Alabama 50Georgia 49North Carolina 43Not to put too fine a point on it, but all southern states.
Debate: Should America ban the death penalty?
Side: Hang 'em high!

Texas put to death Cameron Todd Willingham for example who was innocent and has had 41 exonerations since 1989.One example of a presumably false execution. They are extremely rare. You are at far greater risk of dying from a car crash. Should we ban cars too?and many of those people were on death rowYes Texas tries very hard to administer a just punishment as often as it can, but the problem with this is appeals. When someone is being tried for a capital offense they are given appeals to higher courts, often up the supreme court, but of course they hardly ever make it there, so they sit for decades on death row enjoying their wide screen TVs, spacious cells, and personal weight rooms. This is the reason the death penalty is so expensive, and it's also why, after many trials, the defense is able to plant some seed of reasonable doubt, and a sympathetic jury exonerates them. Even when their actual innocence is very questionable. Again they were predominantly blacks.Of course they are. Blacks are committing a greater proportion of crime:Number of white people in prison: 736 per 100,000Number of black people in prison: 4,789 per 100,000The numbers speak for themselves.Not to put too fine a point on it, but all southern states.That's because they are mostly conservative, and conservatives don't see a problem with ending the existence of a murderer or rapist.
Debate: Should America ban the death penalty?
Side: Let 'em live

It doesn't matter how rare they are. One is ample enough. Blacks are committing the majority of crimes? Umm, so the good ole boy white network no longer exists in Texas? Yeah right!I've often wondered if conservatives lack the empathy gene. Personally, its not something I would brag about.
Debate: Should America ban the death penalty?
Side: Hang 'em high!

It doesn't matter how rare they are. One is ample enough.I agree that it is a tragedy when a wrongful death occurs, but realistically, it is a very small percentage. And the payoff is that it provides (or should provide) a fear of the justice system, thus preventing further tragedies.Blacks are committing the majority of crimes? Umm, so the good ole boy white network no longer exists in Texas? Yeah right!Again, I will cite my earlier argument:Number of white people in prison: 736 per 100,000Number of black people in prison: 4,789 per 100,000That's a national average.This good ole boy white network doesn't hold a candle to the crimes committed by Negroes.I've often wondered if conservatives lack the empathy gene. Personally, its not something I would brag about.Nope. We lack the bleeding heart socialistic gene. And we're happy about that.
Debate: Should America ban the death penalty?
Side: Let 'em live

YES! USA is a democratic countrythe only democratic country that still have death pentally.the point of doing USA inpediant was to do the worlds most democratic country in the world.and in a modern democratic society everyone have the right to live.
Debate: Should America ban the death penalty?
Side: Let 'em live

The Death Penalty is cruel and unusual punishment. It should be abolished.
Debate: Should America ban the death penalty?
Side: Let 'em live

The death penalty would be great and very practical, but the duration of time it takes for a prisoner to eventually be executed is over a span of decades and there are hardly any peopleto be executed. That's how it is in America anyways. If the death penalty were to be in effect immediately when sentence, then it would be practical. But now? The whole idea sound far too vestigal and drawn-out. Make the guilty feel penitence for there misdeeds for the span of the lives, rather than going out in peace and closure after fifteen years of dwelling on it.
Debate: Should America ban the death penalty?
Side: Let 'em live

yes it is true,they are also human being n they hav right to live
Debate: Should America ban the death penalty?
Side: Let 'em live

I believe that nothing you do can justify a person to kill you. So yes the death penalty should be banned.
Debate: Should America ban the death penalty?
Side: Let 'em live

I would have to say that I support that they should live. Those people that have done something wrong should be given a chance to if they are truely repentant. It would also have to depend on the extent on the murder, whether it was an accident or non accidental, also the number of people slaughtered.
Debate: Should America ban the death penalty?
Side: Let 'em live

so they can live every day of there life and thing about the persons life they kill it take them long to kill people on death row it take them three or more year to sat a day so why not let them live some people on death row or wrongful conviction so what about those people they can not die
Debate: Should America ban the death penalty?
Side: Hang 'em high!

If we continue to allow the death penalty, we are no better than the murderers and rapists that we punish with the death penalty. Killing the criminal would just make others angry, since there are other ways to take criminals out of the streets, like life sentences. Also, this could inspire modern-world vigilantes and gang members to have an "eye for an eye" mentality, which means that they will return violence and murder with violence and murder. They will think that if the government does it, it's right for them to do it. And what about the criminals' families? What will they think when they're family member has been murdered by the government? Criminals, as bad as they may be, do have families. The death sentence is just one of those things that makes the cynics right, it is a disgrace to fix a problem with murder.
Debate: Should America ban the death penalty?
Side: Hang 'em high!

If we continue to allow the death penalty, we are no better than the murderers and rapists that we punish with the death penalty.Yes we are, actually. See, murder is immoral. Justice isn't.Killing the criminal would just make others angryWho cares? Morality doesn't care about your feelings.like life sentences.And what kind of justice is that? Letting a murderer, a rapist, etc. live?Also, this could inspire modern-world vigilantes and gang members to have an "eye for an eye" mentalityDon't they already? Usually vigilantes are doing something because someone did something to someone. Gang "vengeance" is the same.they will return violence and murder with violence and murderThat's what criminals do, music.They will think that if the government does it, it's right for them to do it.Right, that's called justified homicide. Which is already a thing.the criminals' families?Again, who cares? Yes, they weren't involved with the crime but the convict did what they did. It's not of importance to the government what happens to the criminal's family, particularly because they didn't do anything illegal.What will they think when they're family member has been murdered by the government?Nice incorrect usage of they're.Second, the death penalty isn't murder. The death penalty is legal as well as moral, murder isn't either.Third, I don't care. It's not my concern. They aren't my family, and the criminal should've known they'd be putting their family in jeopardy through the crime.The death sentence is just one of those things that makes the cynics right, it is a disgrace to fix a problem with murder.The cynics? Okay. A disgrace to fix the murder problem? No. To reiterate, the death penalty is not murder. The death penalty is moral and legal, murder is immoral and illegal. Plain and simple.
Debate: Should America ban the death penalty?
Side: Let 'em live

Yes we are, actually. See, murder is immoral. Justice isn't.You're right, it's wrong to kill but in death penalty we're making killing as justice but justice should be right, and that's the flaw in your concept. Who cares? Morality doesn't care about your feelings.Yes, you are right again, so we should not let our feelings control our justice system, our emotions do not imply what is right and what is wrongAnd what kind of justice is that? Letting a murderer, a rapist, etc. live?Restorative justice broDon't they already? Usually vigilantes are doing something because someone did something to someone. Gang "vengeance" is the same.Both the criminal and the government are the same, it should not be, the government should be different from the criminals.That's what criminals do, music.That's what the government also do, end the musicRight, that's called justified homicide. Which is already a thing.justified homicide? Nope, people are still whining about the government's identity (killer) because it isn't acceptable.Again, who cares? Yes, they weren't involved with the crime but the convict did what they did. It's not of importance to the government what happens to the criminal's family, particularly because they didn't do anything illegal.You're right, the inmate's family is out of the inmate's caseNice incorrect usage of they're.Second, the death penalty isn't murder. The death penalty is legal as well as moral, murder isn't either.Third, I don't care. It's not my concern. They aren't my family, and the criminal should've known they'd be putting their family in jeopardy through the crime. You contradict yourself,Murder or the act of killing is wrong but in the death penalty you have to kill,Perhaps you mean killing an innocent is wrong but it is right to kill the criminalIf this is what you mean, it means that it is also okay to kill the government because the government is not innocent they do the work of criminals and everyone who kills exchange their innocenceNow I have explained to you how you contradict yourself, if I'm wrong then justify . About the Third, Why is the criminal family endangered if it does not do anything wrong?The cynics? Okay. A disgrace to fix the murder problem? No. To reiterate, the death penalty is not murder. The death penalty is moral and legal, murder is immoral and illegal. Plain and simple.Yes, the death penalty is legal killing but killing is unhuman-like, being inhumen is not moral. Yes killing a criminal is legal but not all what the lawmakers say is right, they are just a human that can make mistake.If it is easy for you to kill ,for us it is not because we value human life and we believe that no human life is more worth than the money being saved from every time the death penalty is fulfilled. There are other solutions than killing, believe me, We are wiser than we expected.