Debate: Do you agree with the Death Penalty?
Side: No this is wrong.

who decides who is bad/evil?Not who but what. Their actions. And why they did it.this makes no sense. the criminals actions and reasons determine what is evil? then it is not evil as they would never say it was. we as society, as a whole have determined that murder is illegal, and we place judges in their positions to determine the legitimacy of the claim that a killing was self defense, or murder, etc.and neither do innocent people who were wrongly convicted, and there lies the problemThat means the law is flawed.If law is flawed you don't ban death penalty, you fix the law.fixing laws that have a permanent solution, by making more laws only causes more problems. until we are able to drink a magic potion that gives us the ability to never make a mistake, to never convict an innocent person to death you have to set aside the idea that it is ok to take a life in the name of the state.we are talking about retribution not punishment or survival.Retribution has punishment in its meaning.Locking people up for murder, rape, and else very bad is a waste of resources, unless they are put to forced labor so they could compensate for the wasted resources. There is no point just keeping someone, who may not be free, alive when they are totally useless to the rest. Because of their actions they should either be used as, basically, slaves, or be killed. It was them who made the wrong choices (not talking about small and simple things like stealing but very serious crimes) that led them to their state, they are responsible for their actions. They knew what they were doing when they did it.I myself would prefer forced labor over death penalty. Still, in some cases death penalty would be the right thing to do (no point keeping mentally insane murderers just locked up for their whole life, although there could be some ways to you are correct in that retribution has punishment in its meaning, perhaps i should have used the word vengeance instead.locking people up is a punishment and not a waste of resources. forced labor is slavery, which is another crime in itself. it is not totally outside the realm of possibility that a person can become a better member of society through a rehabilitation process while incarcerated. You cannot lump every "bad" crime into the same pile. If you had to work a double shift every day at work to support your family and you fell asleep behind the wheel on the way home from sheer exhaustion, then you accidentally ran over a child because you had drifted off, should you be placed into the same category as someone who walked into a convenient store and shot a clerk? of course not. BUT when you look at the reason behind both examples it may come down to an economic insecurity. you working double shifts to support your family / the other person committing the robbery in order to support theirs. should you both be killed for your parts in another persons death? i prefer to think that through rehabilitation during your punishment of being incarcerated you both would come out better educated as to what needs to be done in order to help society instead of being a harm. and yes there would always be some that would never get out of prison due to the heinous nature of their crimes, but even in that isnt it the more humane way to go to try to learn why they are the way they are so that we can help prevent future problems instead of throwing them on the fires of our revenge? I appreciate your comments as you offer your opinion in a clear, respectful way. while i like to consider myself open to ideas that could change my mind, i hope that you are as well. unfortunately i have yet to see any valid argument as to why the death penalty is still practices. the u.s. and japan are the only fully developed countries to still use the death penalty and the u.s. is the only western nation to use it, this is not an argument that we should just be like everyone else, but it does say something to the fact that if countries who are supposedly beneath the u.s. have said that it is no longer useful, there must be something to it.