Debates On Death Penalty

Pro will rebuttal and give statements on how the death penalty should be legal and that we should continue executing prisoners.

Debates on death penalty. Although it has been abolished in two thirds of the world s countries it has a long history and is still used in many places including many states in the usa. Various studies comparing crime and murder rates in u s. Arguments against the death penalty. Capital punishment is a difficult and emotional topic for many.

The death penalty is proportional punishment due desert for murder us supreme court justice potter stewart majority opinion in 7 2 ruling that the death penalty is a constitutionally acceptable form of punishment for premeditated murder. Have we established our justice systems out of a desire for rehabilitation or out of a desire for retribution. To continue to house clothe and feed them for the remainder of their natural life at taxpayer expense makes a mockery of justice. Supporters of the death penalty believe that those who commit murder because they have taken the life of another have forfeited their own right to life furthermore they believe capital punishment is a just form of retribution expressing and reinforcing the moral indignation not only of the victim s relatives but of law abiding citizens in general.

The death penalty is reserved for the most heinous of crimes such as murder. Cost of death vs. These inconclusive findings mean that capital punishment may or may not be a. Not proven to deter crime.

Death penalty should definitely still be used when proven guilty of murder. Arguments against the death penalty. States that have the death penalty versus those that don t found very little difference between the two. Life in prison much of the cost indeed much of the criticism of the death penalty is attributed to decades of appeals it is unsurprising that the loudest complaints about death penalty delays come from death penalty opponents.

We are concerned here only with the imposition of capital punishment for the crime of murder and when a life has been taken. I shall be con saying that the death penalty should be illegal for it is immoral. The death penalty goes against our most basic human right the right to life. There s no concrete evidence showing that the death penalty actually deters crime.

The existence of the death penalty in any society raises one underlying question. Should that person just sit in jail fully fed entertained and alive while you have to suffer and your loved one had to suffer. The lister has set out to examine both sides of the debate over the ethics and legality of capital punishment especially in the us and chooses neither. Imagine someone murdering your loved one for no reason.

This debate will be about the death penalty. Being killed by lethal injection or being electrocuted is not always smooth and. The death penalty debate.