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Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 6:17 pm
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I recently had a debate on death penalty for speech and debate class, but I'm not really satisfied with what the other team came up with. I'm con death penalty (against), and i'd like to know some perspectives and facts from other people (mainly pro).
Why death penalty should be abolished:
1. Doesn't effectively deter serious crime. 80% of experts in criminology agree with this. The deterrence of crime depends on would-be murderers identifying with executed killers. Psychological studies show that humans identify with those whom we admire or envy. It is highly unlikely that calculating killers would identify with outcasts who have committed brutal and cowardly crimes. The contrast leads to potential killers thinking that the death penalty is reserved for people unlike themselves 2. Innocents can be wrongly convicted. I'm aware that innocents can be wrongly convicted in any situation, but for the death penalty, there is no formal system in which an innocent on death row can present evidence of his/her innocence.
3. $$$- super costly. Each death penalty case averages about $1.2 million dollars each. In Florida, $3.2 million, North Carolina, $2.6 million, and California, a whopping $90 million a year. Randy Hearrell, executive director of the Kansas Judicial Council, said a life without parole option could save the state between $400,000 and $500,000 per capital murder trial. (and remember, this is your money)
4. Against 8th ammendment of the bill of rights. The 8th amendment clearly states, “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.” For lethal injection, incompetant attendants are used becuase doctors aren't liscensed to kill. Since they don't know much medical stuff, they have to cut up slice the convicted to find a suitable vein. Electric chair: Convicteds are burnt in the electric chair for over 15 minutes before they finally die. When the electric chair was first introduced in 1930, it was tested on live pigs in public. Reporters at the event exclaimed that it was more savage than being drawn and quartered. Drawing and quartering is when a man is hung to death, savagely taken down from his post, has his intestines pulled out and burned, and then cut into quarters.
info collected from :: The Death Penalty by Gail B. Stewart, ncadp.com or National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, and Wikipedia.
er...good luck?
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Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 12:52 pm
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Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 3:18 pm
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Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 3:22 pm
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Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 8:57 am
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Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 6:41 pm
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Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 6:43 pm
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Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 8:56 am
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Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 9:52 am
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Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 7:18 pm
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Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 5:07 pm
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Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 3:45 am
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I believe in the death penalty, but not for many offenses.
Rape, horrid as it is, should not be punishable by death unless it involves a)torture b)young children or c) the person in question is a repeated offender.
Murder (not "manslaughter" but outright murder), I support the death penalty for, period. Murder is the "big one", so to speak, and such a person should not in my opinion be allowed to walk freely among his fellow man. Manslaughter is one thing; things will happen, mutually agreed-to fights will go bad, people will mistakenly feel their own or someone else's life is in danger, and lives will be lost in such cases. But murder; but killing someone just because you wanted to, or because it "was just easier"... That is unforgivable.
Aside from the extreme, unique or semi-unique case, I do not believe in death for any other offense.
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