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I agree with the death penalty, but to make the debate I disagree with death penalty
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1. Morality
Whether state and federal governments deserve to kill someone
2. Deterrence
People fear nothing more than death. / There is no credible evidence that the death penalty deters crime more effectively than long terms of imprisonment.
3. Retribution
It is same with revenge
4. Mistakes
1 of 7 cases was wrong conviction.
5. Cost of Death Penalty
Too expensive – statistics
6. Who pays the penalty?

http://www.innocenceproject.org/Content/The_Innocent_and_the_Death_Penalty.php?gclid=CIHr4P_t1bgCFcOh4AodHT0AKA http://www.innocenceproject.org/understand/Snitches-Informants.php?gclid=CM3q6Y7p1bgCFZOk4Aodc20ANg http://deathpenalty.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=002000
Cost of death penalty - http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/costs-death-penalty https://www.facebook.com/TheDeathPenaltyToday 1 so, we disagree with the death penalty.
2 hear is one story
3 his name is timothy evans
4 London. In January 1950, he was sentenced to death for murder of his wife and daughter.
5 he insisted that his neighbor, john Christie, killed them but it was not accepted and he died.
6 after his death, john Christie confessed that he committed murder.
7 after this accident, England abolished death penalty system.
8 like this, the first reason why we disagree with the death penalty is mistake.
9 on the one statistics, we found that 1 of 7 cases is wrong court decision.
10 the second reason is that death penalty can’t prevent a crime
11 the people who agree with death penalty believe that people fear death best.
12 but there is no credible evidence that the death penalty prevent crime more effectively than long terms of imprisonment.
13 the third reason is, we think death penalty is not different from revenge
14 the last reason is cost of death penalty
15 according to statistics, Maryland, for example, used $186 million for five executive. It is $71 million

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