formal debate on capital punishment...?

Question

HEY EVERYONE.

i am doing a formal debate on capital punishment in my english class. when i say formal i mean SERIOUSLY LIGIT. do any of you know any SNAPPY things that i can say so that i can win the vote of the mediator. any way to really get any attention? i really want to win this thing!
thanks!

i am pro SRY ABOUT THAT :)

Answer 1

It depends on whether you want to use facts or just opinions.
If you want to use facts, here are a few with the sources listed below. They may surprise you.

The death penalty costs much more than life in prison. Here are some of the factors. Pre trial costs are much greater - special investigation needed to decide whether death penalty should be sought- does the defendent have mental retardation or severe mental illness? There will be many more pre trial motions which must be answered. If the prosecutor decides to seek the death penalty, the trial will have two separate phases, one to decide guilt, one to decide the penalty, with separate sets of witnesses. The process of choosing jurors is much more complicated in death penalty cases. Prosecution teams use more lawyers, and where the money is available, by the defense as well. Death penalty cases take much longer to try. After a death sentence the costly appeals process begins.

DNA is found at less than 10% of all murder scenes. DNA evidence is no guarantee that we will not execute innocent people.

Our appeals courts are not set up to take a second look at whether a defendent was actually innocent, but to decide whether the trial met constitutional standards. It is very difficult to get new evidence of innocence heard in court.

Of the 124 innocent people released from death rows, many had served well over a decade. If the process is speeded up we will surely execute innocent people.

48 states now have life without parole on the books. I t means what it says. It is rarely apppealed. It is sure and swift, both needed for a punishment to deter others. The death penalty is neither sure nor swift. (Both punishments incapacitate a criminal- keeps him from reoffending.)

No reputable study shows the death penalty to be a deterrent. In fact, homicide rates are higher in states with the death penalty than in states without it.

The death penalty can be very hard on families of murder victims. Many murder victim family members across the country argue that the drawn- out death penalty process is painful for them and that life without parole is an appropriate alternative.

The death penalty does not apply to the worst of the worst. It applies to defendants with the worst lawyers. When is the last time a wealthy person faced execution or even came close???

48% of Americans prefer life without parole and 47% prefer the death penalty.

Answer 2

you may desire to set your man or woman emotions aside. A debate is greater of a contest than an quite philosophical communicate. attempt to place your self interior the shoes of a man or woman who's dying of a foul ailment. This man or woman is in discomfort daily, some days this man or woman would possibly no longer additionally be waiting to speak. He/she see her physique crumble with the ailment. They see their relatives around them being unhappy, disappointed and under pressure at having to observe them slowly die. etc..... seek the internet for Jack Kevorkian and different docs who've assisted suicides. The articles can factor you to the justifications they experience what they did is the main appropriate ingredient.

Answer 3

'90% of people who go to Prison end up going back for a crime', what is stopping them from killing again?

I duno.. haha.. I'm not pro capital punishment. I'm pro rotting in prison.

Answer 4

capital punishment is a final solution for all of society's flaws and mistakes- sir/madam- i'm dead serious!!!

Answer 5

You forgot to mention which side you are debating.

Answer 6

It'd help to know what stance you're taking.

Answer 7

You failed to say which side you are on.