Should the Death Penalty be Allowed?
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Voting Style: | Open | Point System: | 7 Point | ||
Started: | 10/20/2017 | Category: | Society | ||
Updated: | 3 years ago | Status: | Debating Period | ||
Viewed: | 515 times | Debate No: | 104534 |
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I'm actually gonna be pro for this debate (Round 1 is going to be about the main question to the debate then we will go on from there) Ok so to start off, We reserve the death penalty in the United States for the most heinous murders and the most brutal and conscienceless murderers. This is not, as some critics argue, a kind of state-run lottery that randomly chooses an unlucky few for the ultimate penalty from among all those convicted of murder. Rather, the capital punishment system is a filter that selects the worst of the worst... Put another way, to sentence killers like those described above to less than death would fail to do justice because the penalty – presumably a long period in prison – would be grossly disproportionate to the heinousness of the crime. Prosecutors, jurors, and the loved ones of murder victims understand this essential point... Perhaps most importantly, in its supreme gravity it [the death penalty] promotes belief in and respect for the majesty of the moral order and for the system of human law that both derives from and supports that moral order." A couple of other really good reasons for the death penalty is
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