How do Ya'll feel on the death penalty? i'm writting a debate case so if you wanna help.....?

Question

I'm writting this deabte case right and the topic is "a Just society ought not use the death penalty as a form of punishment." and i have no clue what i'm doing! i have no research or anything! wanna help???

Answer 1

13-year-old Karen Patterson was shot to death in her bed in North Charleston, S.C. Her killer was a neighbor who had already served 10 years of a life sentence for murdering his half-brother Charles in 1970.

Melvin and Linda Lorenz and their son Richard were killed by Roger Stafford. Melvin stopped on a highway near Purcell, Okla., to help what he thought was a woman whose car had broken down, but instead was ambushed by Stafford and his brother, using Stafford's wife as bait. Less than a month after these horrific murders, the trio killed six employees of a steak house in Oklahoma City.

I could go on and on. If you do research you will find that the majority of death row inmates never get put to death. Most die of old age. It costs millions per inmate for a life sentence.This money could be better served helping our elderly, our handicap, our citizens who didn't kill someone , who did the right thing their whole life and now needs help.

Sorry, I use to be against the death penalty, but not any more.

Answer 2

No . . yet no longer for any sentimental B.S. reasons approximately "sending the incorrect message" or because of the fact "2 wrongs do no longer make a real." this is a gaggle of crap. i'm against the death penalty because of the fact it would not functionality a deterrent; the states with the main executions, have the main continuously. If the death penalty became right into a deterrent, that great distinction could rotate from state to state. Secondly, the death penalty would not shop the tax payers any funds. after all the appeals, it definitely finally ends up costing greater. finally, this is an ordinary way out. death by ability of deadly injection is a lot greater humane than the way the sufferers died. that's too sturdy for those animals. I say solitary confinement and/or annoying exertions continuously. No cable television, not one of the "niceties" of abode. in basic terms a concrete floor and partitions, awful foodstuff, and no desire of ever getting out.

Answer 3

i like it, although i'd have to say that the death penalty in the united states is a joke. they're never put to death until 15-20 years goes by, and then it's by something like lethal injection, which would be a humane way to put to death a loved one who was in constant and severe pain due to some incurable illness. i doubt the death penalty serves as any kind of deterent given the inadequate application of penalty. but if someone is going to show that kind of lack of respect for human life, then i will show that kind of respect back for his life. i never shed a tear over the execution of a terrible person, and it's never been shown that an innocent person was put to death under the u.s. system.

i think many who oppose the death penalty feel that to kill a killer somehow lowers us to his level, or means that we wouldn't be any better than him. but that kind of thinking is fatally flawed. there is a big difference, a huge difference between killing an innocent person and killing a guilty person.

Answer 4

So, you are arguing against the death penalty, not for it, right? Here are some reasons to not have it:
1-The way they put people to death is cruel and inhumane.
2-They might be killing and innocent man.
3-It is morally wrong.

Hope that helps. If you are arguing in the other direction, you can email me. I have arguments for that as well. I have done the same thing you are doing. I hated being on the debate team... LOL.

Answer 5

It is more humane to kill the condemned after a fair appeal process. Life in prison is harsh enough with the hope of being released. What kind of monster would the condemned become after all hope of freedom is lost? Better to put the convict to death, like an elderly pet that is suffering pain every day...

Answer 6

I do not oppose the death penalty, I just oppose the long, drawn out, expensive process it takes to put someone to death. It is costly, time consuming, and really we end up losing because the money used to go through all of the appeals process could be spent on education for children, college scholarships, and to improve the communities.

It is really cheaper to house a criminal until they die versus putting them to death.

Answer 7

Without getting too complicated into the issue....

On a humanistic level, it seems to me as though those responsible for a prisoner's death (switch-puller, prosecutor, judge, jury) are responsible on an equal level of morality as the convicted. The prisoner's life is no more their choice to take than is the victim of the crime the prisoner's choice to take. I'm not passionate enough to take a political role on the issue but if there is some sort of "moral judgement" beyond that of mankind, I believe the universe will balance as it must.

Answer 8

I totally agree with the death penalty. If someone is going around killing people, why should he get to live? He has taken so many lives, why is he still around? Being in prison is not even going to compare what he's going to have to face in _ _ _ _ once he dies, so boot him to the fiery furnace.

Answer 9

Those who receive the death penalty are NOT repeat offenders!

Answer 10

Democrats are Against the Death Penalty.

Democrats believe that murderers, child molesting killers, and torture rapists can all be Cured by being given "Sensitivity Classes" and "Big Democrat Group Hugs".