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Debate: Death Penalty Gets Killed in CT
Side: I Agree

Your unused punishment argument is slightly misplaced here. It isn't about the timeframe it is about the state already banning it. The state has already decided that they won't use the punishment. Any continued use of the punishment would be unusual.
Debate: Death Penalty Gets Killed in CT
Side: I Agree

I've been giving it some though, and I came to the fairly certain conclusion that I was just talking out of my ass.Only fairly certain, though.
Debate: Death Penalty Gets Killed in CT
Side: I Agree

one can perform it without a "cruel" method,.name ONE method..just one, any one.. one that you think is not cruel when the result is death by definition.
Debate: Death Penalty Gets Killed in CT
Side: I Disagree

Anything that kills the person instantly.
Debate: Death Penalty Gets Killed in CT
Side: I Agree

nothing does that..even being tossed into a black hole will take a finite amount of time..disposing of the inconveniently violent or "evil" will do nothing to mitigate whatever act they committed, and only serves to release them to the unknown..better to keep them among the living so we can definitely know what they are going thru.
Debate: Death Penalty Gets Killed in CT
Side: I Agree

disposing of the inconveniently violent or "evil" will do nothing to mitigate whatever act they committed,Neither does leaving them alive. If anything leaving them alive gives them a chance of leaving prison.
Debate: Death Penalty Gets Killed in CT
Side: I Agree

leaving them alive gives them a chance of leaving prison.. so does giving them the death penalty... with all the mandatory appeals, they can linger for decades..life means life... there is no getting out.. that is unless you can bribe some poorly paid private prison guard to help you.
Debate: Death Penalty Gets Killed in CT
Side: I Agree

life means life... there is no getting out.Yeah life in prison sure is more cruel then the Death Penalty.
Debate: Death Penalty Gets Killed in CT
Side: I Disagree

life in prison sure is more cruel then the Death Penalty.prove it.
Debate: Death Penalty Gets Killed in CT
Side: I Agree

prove it.Prisoners will suffer much more is they die of old age due to life imprisonment compared to lethal injection.
Debate: Death Penalty Gets Killed in CT
Side: I Agree

so, your argument hinges on the notion that to LIVE is to suffer.. now, i ask you again... what is the more fitting punishment for someone who has caused suffering by their actions?.release from suffering, or life in prison?.choose.
Debate: Death Penalty Gets Killed in CT
Side: I Disagree

release from their right to life.
Debate: Death Penalty Gets Killed in CT
Side: I Agree

if to live is to suffer, and living is a right...then it follows that he should have the right to suffer for what he's done..check and mate.
Debate: Death Penalty Gets Killed in CT
Side: I Agree

No, it's cruel. It's just 'less'cruel *
Debate: Death Penalty Gets Killed in CT
Side: I Disagree

http://thelawdictionary.org/cruelty/Cut the attitude and remember that I am strongly opposed to the death penalty. I put cruel in parentheses because I was referring to the legal standard of cruelty, not your or my concept of cruelty.
Debate: Death Penalty Gets Killed in CT
Side: I Agree

i'll cut the attitude when i damn well fell like it, thank you very much..the legal definition says intentional infliction of pain..i assume you will stipulate the intentional part..now, tell me how you KNOW it does not "hurt" to die..i'll be here... with my attitude fully intact.
Debate: Death Penalty Gets Killed in CT
Side: I Disagree

We know of these interesting things called sedatives and anesthetics. I know, crazy stuff, right? So not only is there no intentional infliction of pain, but short of some incredibly botched methods that need to be outlawed (well, on top of the Death Penalty itself), there isn't any unintentional pain.And your attitude is ridiculous. It contributes nothing to the discussion and just comes across as petulant and contrary to any constructive conversation.
Debate: Death Penalty Gets Killed in CT
Side: I Agree

We know of these interesting things called sedatives.we do? what do we know of these things?.we know that they suppress the conscious mind so that it is not aware of the pain of living..we DO NOT know what effect (if any) they have on the awareness of the pain of dying..no idea what so ever.
Debate: Death Penalty Gets Killed in CT
Side: I Disagree

Pain is a matter of nerve responses. If we know that sedatives and anesthetics can block pain reception, then we known it blocks the pain associated with dying. We also know that individuals can die faster than their bodies can process it, which would indeed be painless.
Debate: Death Penalty Gets Killed in CT
Side: I Agree

Pain is a matter of nerve responses..clearly you are not (yet) well acquainted with pain in all it various manifestations..and even if you were the worlds expert on pain, you would still have no way of knowing if it 'hurts' to die..no way at all.
Debate: Death Penalty Gets Killed in CT
Side: I Agree

clearly you are not (yet) well acquainted with pain in all it various manifestations.Clearly I am not interested in a philosophical conversation on what constitutes non-physiological pain.and even if you were the worlds expert on pain, you would still have no way of knowing if it 'hurts' to die..no way at all.Except we have means of monitoring the brain to determine when pain signals are sent by the nerves, and therefore are able to determine if it hurts to die, which is entirely irrelevant to what I previously said.You really seem to forget that I am opposed to the death penalty, by the way.
Debate: Death Penalty Gets Killed in CT
Side: I Agree

we have means of monitoring the brain to determine when pain signals are sent by the nerves, and therefore are able to determine if it hurts to die.cite.
Debate: Death Penalty Gets Killed in CT
Side: I Agree

http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/misc/ diagnostic_tests.htm#examination Go down to EEG.
Debate: Death Penalty Gets Killed in CT
Side: I Agree

an EEG tells us nothing about what death feels like..in fact it doesn't even tell us what pain feels like for the living.
Debate: Death Penalty Gets Killed in CT
Side: I Agree

An EEG measures brain activity and nerve responses. Anything beyond that is philosophical nonsense that I already said I have no desire discussing, as I from the start was referring to physiological pain.
Debate: Death Penalty Gets Killed in CT
Side: I Agree

The method that is not cruel is using our brains.
Debate: Death Penalty Gets Killed in CT
Side: I Disagree

If someone committed a crime that terrible to get the death penalty they deserve it. WE ARE TALKING ABOUT SOMEONE WHO COMMITTED MAJOR CRIMES! THE DEATH PENALTY IS NOT GIVEN TO THOSE WHO COMMIT MEDIUM OR PETTY CRIMES!Anyway we give the death penalty to those you torture, rape, kill, many many times in their life. While my argument seems petty to some liberals (You know you are) I believe that the death penalty should still exist. Continuing:I am a deep web explorer. I do it privately and tell others how bad our world really is and if you were to go there you would fine millions that deserve the death penalty. I once accidentally stumbled upon a web cam of a man taking out a woman's eye because the viewer payed her $500 dollars... Your telling me the death penalty is cruel... Then what do you call that...
Debate: Death Penalty Gets Killed in CT
Side: I Agree

And what if the evidence was wrong, and the person executed was ultimately innocent? Do you truly believe that the justice system is infallible? Are the lives of innocent people really worth less than the desire for "revenge"?Additionally, the death penalty is given out disproportionately to African Americans, and even more disproportionately to the lower class. This is not some even-handed sentence.While my argument seems petty to some liberals (You know you are assholesOf course they are going to seem petty when you are calling people who disagree with you assholes. You also sound immature.
Debate: Death Penalty Gets Killed in CT
Side: I Disagree

I'm 13 BTW... And it is not in revenge, the man (or woman) does not deserve to live. We only give the death penalty to those who are do multiple crimes (multiple homocides etc) How do we get multiple people linked to one person and it be wrong.
Debate: Death Penalty Gets Killed in CT
Side: I Agree

Your age is not an excuse for you to refer to people of a different ideology as assholes in any way, shape, or form. Additionally, claiming that they "do not deserve to live" is not a call you deserve to make (or me, for that matter).  As for the death penalty, http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/crimes-punishable-death-penalty I recommend you read up on the issue before making those claims, because you were incorrect on that matter.Lastly, one can be wrongfully convicted of multiple times. There have been plenty of people who were executed despite their trials failing the "Beyond Reasonable Doubt" standard, and there have been people who were executed who were exonerated after the fact. Do their lives not matter?
Debate: Death Penalty Gets Killed in CT
Side: I Disagree

They do very much matter but they still should have kept the death penalty.
Debate: Death Penalty Gets Killed in CT
Side: I Agree

So they "matter". If their lives actually mattered, we wouldn't accept executing innocent people as collateral damage.
Debate: Death Penalty Gets Killed in CT
Side: I Disagree

Ok fine. Risk the monsters get back out of prison and kill a few more before they get caught again (if they do get caught).
Debate: Death Penalty Gets Killed in CT
Side: I Agree

Or put them in a maximum security prison, where that essentially never happens.http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/06/08/prison-escape-statistics/28693731/
Debate: Death Penalty Gets Killed in CT
Side: I Disagree

'Essentially' Seems the same as false death sentences 'Essentially' never happens. That's why we need to increase our policing expenses.
Debate: Death Penalty Gets Killed in CT
Side: I Agree

http://time.com/79572/more-innocent-people-on-death-row-than-estimated-study/ Except it isn't the same.
Debate: Death Penalty Gets Killed in CT
Side: I Disagree

How is it not your risking things both ways? (SPACE FILLER SPACE FILLER SPACE FILLER)
Debate: Death Penalty Gets Killed in CT
Side: I Agree

Because innocent people sentenced to life in prison have more chances to appeal the ruling compared to innocent people sentenced to death.
Debate: Death Penalty Gets Killed in CT
Side: I Disagree

Everything is relied on Chance! Why is that!?!? (SPACE FILLER SPACE FILLER SPACE FILLER(
Debate: Death Penalty Gets Killed in CT
Side: I Agree

you're using the wrong definition of chance.
Debate: Death Penalty Gets Killed in CT
Side: I Agree

That doesn't make sense. If someone is given the death penalty, there is no chance for them to be proven guilty if they actually are. If someone is given life in prison in a maximum security facility, there is, and there is essentially no chance of escape.
Debate: Death Penalty Gets Killed in CT
Side: I Disagree

There is always a chance of escape with enough time and effort.
Debate: Death Penalty Gets Killed in CT
Side: I Agree

Then why don't the statistics back you up?
Debate: Death Penalty Gets Killed in CT
Side: I Disagree

Because statistics never mean shit. (SPACE FILLER SPACE FILLER SPACE FILLER)
Debate: Death Penalty Gets Killed in CT
Side: I Agree

Convenient. So you have no evidence that backs you up, and you are going to (without any actual basis) claim that the statistics that disagree with you are shit. Why don't you prove how the statistics on Maximum Security Prisons and their escapes are shit.
Debate: Death Penalty Gets Killed in CT
Side: I Disagree

So let me think here... Done. you think evidence is needed at all times and no faith is involved in anything. Same with statistics, statistics are done using every escape. At anytime there could be a large change of escapes. Thus making statistics irrelevant.
Debate: Death Penalty Gets Killed in CT
Side: I Agree

I don't believe you finished your comment, but I will address what you have said.Evidence is needed to back up claims. If you are going to try to dispute a claim, faith is essentially worthless. I have provided you with evidence that demonstrated that you are wrong, so responding with saying you have "faith" that you are right is essentially saying you are not looking to debate.Lastly, statistics are not "done with every escape". The statistics I provided you with included the escapes. Did you even bother to look at the link I sent you?
Debate: Death Penalty Gets Killed in CT
Side: I Agree

Because the number of people who have escaped from maximum security is effectively zero, while the number of innocent people currently on death row is around 4%, which is not insignificant.
Debate: Death Penalty Gets Killed in CT
Side: I Disagree

I'm going to put this very simple because I don't want people to misinterpret me. I disagree with taking a human life. It hurts to hear about anyone dying. If I we're a soldier I don't know if I could take the shot. But if this person takes a human life why should he/she get to keep his/hers. I think that people need to realize how the rape/murder victim families feel after words. What you are doing is giving that person who killed a moms little girl or raped 1 month old baby a comfortable life in prison where they have TV and visits.
Debate: Death Penalty Gets Killed in CT
Side: I Agree

I assure you, murderers are not going to prisons where they get "TV" have any kind of visits you would like, or live a "comfortable" life. Additionally, if you disagree with taking a human life, why then do you advocate taking a human life as revenge for someone taking a human life?
Debate: Death Penalty Gets Killed in CT
Side: I Agree

I'm cheering on you man, give them common sense
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Death Penalty

It really depends on the situation. Not every offense should get the death penalty. However, if a man murders somebody in the first degree, having thought about it and carried out the act, I see the death penalty as the ultimate punishment: "an eye for an eye..." If that man values life so little as to take the life of another, why should he have that precious gift?
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Life in jail

If that man values life so little as to take the life of another, why should he have that precious gift?I would agree but out judicial system is based on preserving a persons rights. Imagine if I find evidence that proves your guilt and I got it illegally, i.e. no warrant, that evidence is thrown out and you could be set free even though guilty. That's because I violated your rights. Killing a person is the ultimate violation of their rights; one you cannot correct if you make a mistake.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Death Penalty

What about people we do have proof for? what about saddam?were you against his execution?& what about people like charles mansion? do you think people like him deserve to live forever?
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Death Penalty

you are right if there is no reasonable doubt that they did it they deserve to die and not live.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Life in jail

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind"Who has the right to take the gift away? Only God. A man should be punished for taking that gift from someone, but death? More death doesn't bring life.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Death Penalty

God specifically gives the government permission to punish murderers by death. Read ur Bible lately?
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Death penalty

More death saves lives. If you let the murderer live you will allow the cycle of murder and revenge to continue. Without "an eye for an eye" the world would be blinder still. Without severe consequences people will not hesitate to do evil. What does a homeless man have to lose from going to jail? What's wrong with free shelter, free food, free entertainment? You can't reward evil with good or else you'll encourage the wicked to keep on acting wickedly. Make an example of every criminal and you'll do much more good.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Death Penalty

I'd totally go for the death penalty. But, lets be reasonable about this. If I die, I want to go out by firing squad.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Death Penalty

We dont have any problem killing innocent unborn babys, why not a serial killer. Its cheaper, more efficant, and uses less resources overall. You know prisoners have a higher standing of living then most US citizens, expecially the poor, they have free heathcare, free meals, free clothing, a shelter, some federal penetaries they have TVs, free entertainment, usually a job, even if it pays you 25 cence an hour.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Life in jail

So I'm guessing you're a conservative that is pro-life? ;)I wasn't asking whether or not we should abolish one you conservative fool, I was asking which one you would rather. Conservatives they never learn...
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Death Penalty

The problem, people, is... the criminal system never catches the real criminal.It's true isn;t it?
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Death Penalty

I don't want my tax money supporting his ass while he works out, watches TV and God knows what else. But if my tax money is going to support his ass while he gets reamed, well now...., that's a different story...., ain't it :)
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Life in jail

With the cost of appeals and public defenders and court time, it actually works out to be more expensive to put someone to death, than to sentence them to life. (in most cases)
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Death Penalty

All you have to do is make it illegal to get an appeal and be done with it. If you're sentenced to death, it gets carried out right away.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Death Penalty

Oh! Okay, you go ahead and make that illegal then. Problem solved!
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Life in jail

That is a horribly barbaric thing to say. If you really think it's okay for convicts to be raped, I honestly feel bad for your lack of humanity. Even we know for a fact someone murdered someone which is impossible, that is still totally unacceptable for something like that to occur. Furthermore we don't know for a fact that the people who are convicted are guilty. How would you feel if you were in prison for a crime you didn't commit and you were raped?
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Death Penalty

Well raping & killing innocent children is horrible. If you think it is okay to take tax money from good hard working people & waste it on keeping child killing pedophiles alive forever then I feel bad for your lack of intelligence.Well what if we do have proof that pedophile raped & killed those innocent kids?should we waste our tax money keeping them alive forever?how would you feel if I raped & killed 1 of your kids then we started taking all your money you worked hard for keeping me alive forever?
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Life in jail

First of you don't know that someone committed a crime which is why our legal system is skewed so that it is more likely that people who are innocent will go free. Consequently people are who are guilty go free, but that's a necessary evil. If you ever wanted to totally eliminate crime, just execute every person who a cop says committed a crime. I guarantee you crime you would disappear. But it isn't worth it because you will condemning innocent people. Yes I think it is fine to use taxes to keep pedophiles in jail. I wouldn't even support executing Hitler had we caught him. Life is the most fundamental human right that cannot be taken away under any circumstances. And just because I disagree doesn't mean I am stupid. I don't think you're stupid for disagreeing, just a barbarian.Even if the pedophile confesses, I don't care. Yes we should waste our tax money because there is no better alternative.The annual cost per person for incarceration of an inmate is incredibly low. So I wouldn't call it "taking all my money." If you raped and killed my kids, I would not want you to be executed.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Death Penalty

we have advanced technology today. It's hard to prove an innocent person guilty.so you support hitler & the pedophiles huh?you would much rather spend all our tax money keeping evil dictators & child killing pedophiles alive forever than spend it on more productive stuff?we are in no shape to be wasting our tax money. we are in a recession! if we weren't wasting it on pedophiles we would be in better shape.It costs alot to keep someone alive forever. what are you talking about!
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Life in jail

Yes we do have advanced technology today. But you are insanely naive if you think it is hard to prove an innocent person guilty. There have been about 111 people sentenced to death who were found guilty while waiting. And about 12 have been exonerated after being executed. Even a single one is too many.Not thinking Hitler and pedophiles should be executed is different from supporting them. That is an exaggeration of epic proportions. We don't spend all of our tax money on people in death row. We spend significantly more on keeping people in jail for temporary sentences than death or life sentences.Oh wow that is funny. No the recession is not caused by keeping inmates in death row if that's what you are implying. And even executing them all right now would do nothing for the economy.We spend much more money each year keeping people in prison for minor drug offenses then we do each year for people on death row.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Death Penalty

Well I feel bad that those people were wrongly killed. But what about the people like hitler, saddam, charles mansion? we have all the proof we need that they are mass criminals. why should we be keeping people like them alive forever?it doesnt do us any good keeping people like them alive forever.I didn't say the recession was caused by that I said the recession is made worse by that. & executing them right now would save thousands-millions of tax dollars. The recession was caused by high gas prices & that bailout.If we would drill here for oil then gas prices would be lower & our economy would be in much better shape. & if we wouldn't have given those slimeballs 700 billion dollars we could have spent that on building roads & sidewalks. Which is more PRODUCTIVE than keeping evil people alive forever.
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Life in jail

>>>we have advanced technology today. It's hard to prove an innocent person guilty.<<<Really...seems to me all our technology can be so easily manipulated. I'm not sure you fully understand how we could actually be paying more to kill someone then to keep them alive for life. You do know that in a lot of cases you as a tax payer pay for both the defense and the prosecution lawyers. A security guard makes $30 an hour and a lawyer makes $300 an hour. Death penalty cases involve a lot of appeals and them lawyers are really expensive.I'm not sure it's a fact but I can certainly see how killing someone could actually cost taxpayers more. Your whole argument could be moot. You might want to come up with other reason to kill someone???
Debate: Death penalty or life in prison?
Side: Death Penalty

then what do you consider complete correct proof?killing them may cost hundreds of dollars but keeping them alive forever costs thousands of dollars. it costs dozens of dollars a day to keep them alive.