What are some questions i can ask to someone who is in favour of capital punishment in a debate?

El Guapo

1. In the last 35 years in the U.S., 130 people have been released from death row because they were exonerated by DNA evidence. Since DNA is not available in most homicide cases, we are pretty much guaranteed to occasionally execute innocent people. What would you say is an "acceptable" level of wrongful executions? How many is too many?

2. If the death penalty is a deterrent, why do you suppose that violent crime rates are higher in death penalty jurisdictions?

3. Capital punishment costs WAY more than life imprisonment. In some states, it's over 3 times as much. Don't you think this money would be better spent on police, education, drug treatment programs, and other government services that PREVENT crime?

I hope that helps. The website below can be a great resource for you. Good luck in your debate!

Amine Li Best

You can ask :
"How can we punish the murder by another murder?" (Only the system has got the right to kill somebody?)

Elliott M

my friend that subject has been beat to death so if you go to a collegian website you will find more to chew on than you can imagine

masseur

I can say what are the points that may come to your mind but you shouldn't say.

You can say nobody has the right to take out one's life, then it would be two lives taken out of the world, much less the world is overpopulated. ('However it would be a deterrent to a serial killer or child killer'; you should forget about that, rather you can tell the statistics show that capital punishment didn't help to reduce the crime rate - whose statistics you needn't tell - it might be Amnesty's) You can argue and quibble that people can be reformed and don't tell the drug related offences make them incorrigible. Nevertheless you have only few points sincerely but the trend is to send murderers to go scot free, not even for lashing them which is considered too barbaric and primitive. Everybody should fear roaming criminals with the vain hope of prison officials reforming them through meditation and yoga until they break open the gates and flee away! Don't mention commuted prisoners -death sentence to life imprisonment- hunger striking on prison roof tops to release them on the expiry of mandatory 15 yrs etc.,! Yet it is possible for the politicians to release them and use them as contract killers and squeeze much out of them as they may think after all he like god saved them from gallows, so the bluff is to keep the capital punishment in the statute but not to implement. Accept all clemency appeals!

It might be in negative form render the same in your own way very positively to forward plausible to the gullible.

I'm not the one to interfere with judicial killings after long litigation in several courts to encourage extra judicial killings revenge and encounter styles, 'he tried to escape we killed or tried to kill us we shot back in defence'

james

what percentage of people executed have later been found to be innocent case study in uk 10 rillington place wrong man hanged
when has two wrongs ever made a right
if your son daughter killed somebody guilty or innocent would you still advocate for their termination
is it right to keep people on death row for ten or maybe 15 years prior to execution isn't that mental torture

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