Abolish Capital Punishment

Capital Punishment should be abolished

Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience that capital punishment should be abolished.

Central Idea: Capital punishment should not be allowed.

Introduction:

Attention Statement: The death penalty does not deter people from committing crimes. It is a cruel and cold blooded form of punishment and there have been instances where innocent people were sentenced to death and later found to be innocent.

Credibility: Based on my research I have learned the capital punishment doesn’t stop a criminal from committing a crime. Capital punishment is the most severe punishment anyone can receive for committing a crime.

Main Points:

Today I will discuss the problems related to capital punishment, I will offer solutions, help you see how better America would be if you adopt my solutions, and persuade you that America should abolish capital punishment.

Most countries around the world already abolished death penalty while at least twenty- three countries still carried out the executions in 2010.

Statistic came out that China carried out greatest number of executions that more than a thousand people last year. It is far more than total executions than the rest of the world put together.

Method of executions includes beheading, electrocution, gassing, hanging, lethal injection, shooting and stoning.

Death penalty commonly applied for cases like murder, rape, armed robbery and drug trafficking. However, in China the list of offences which can result into executions includes tax evasion, fraud, bigamy, publication of pornographic material, cyber crimes, apostasy,blasphemy, adultery, prostitution and homosexuality. Iran is among the country that still execute child offender that is people under age of eighteen. Some states in U.S also execute people with mental illness.

Body:

What supporters say

The taking of a criminal’s life allows society to show convincingly that certain crimes will not be tolerated. They are considered so heinous that executing the criminal is the only reasonable response.

Potential criminals will think twice before breaking the law for fear of losing their life. because it's cheaper than keeping people in prison.

Once a convicted criminal is executed, we don’t have to worry anymore about that person. There is no chance of them escaping or getting parole or somehow coming out of jail, to repeat their crimes.

Once someone is executed and buried, there are no further maintenance costs to the state.

II. Why death penalty should be abolished

According to Kimberly Masters Evans 2010 Capital Punishment: Cruel and Unusual,The rights of the victims are more important than the rights of the criminal. Although the victim and the victim’s family cannot be restored to the status which preceded the crime, at least an execution brings closure to the criminal and closure to the ordeal for the victims family.

The death penalty only serves to further brutalize society. Vengeance is a strong and natural emotion but the demand for a life in retribution should have no place in a civilized justice system. Our aim should be more humane and holistic responses to the growth of violent crime, including paying attention to root causes such as poverty and injustice. there is in fact no evidence of a deterrent effect

The overwhelming conclusion from years of deterrence studies is that the death penalty at best is no more of a deterrent than a sentence of life in prison. Murders are often committed in the heat of the moment. Not much thought is given to the punishment at that particular time.saving money can never be a justification for taking someone's life.

Far from enhancing the value of human life, the death penalty lowers it. It violates the belief in the human capacity to

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