Me and Ashli's opening statement for debate.

There are many reasons to have the Death Penalty.  Proponents of capital punishment say it is an important tool for preserving law and order and that the death penalty deters additional crime thereby saving innocent lives.They argue that the death penalty costs less than life imprisonment, because it prevents needing to house and feed the criminal for so many years and that life - even in prison - is a privilege that some people should not have.
REASONS INCLUDE: THE MORALITY OF THE CRIMES COMMITTED,
There are many reasons to have the Death Penalty. We should have the Death Penalty, because people should  deserve what they did, they need to take responsibility for their actions. If you took a life, you have to give out your own.  Bruce Fein, JD, General Counsel for the Center for Law said , “The death penalty honors human dignity by treating the defendant as a free moral actor able to control his own destiny for good or for ill; it does not treat him as an animal with no moral sense, and thus subject even to butchery to satiate human gluttony.”
COST OF KEEPING PRISONERS: There is also the Cost of the Death Penalty verses Life in Prison. Sentencing a person to life in prison means that you have to provide the supplies necessary to survive. If they are sentenced to death you don’t have that kind of money thrown away. This country and almost every state are in a huge amount of debt, and many prisons are overfull.
DETERRENCE If people are afraid of the death penalty, then they won’t be so quick to commit crimes. Most people are afraid of death more than anything. Criminals much prefer life sentence. We should not give them this option if they aren’t afraid of it.
CONSTITUTIONALITY The death penalty doesn’t violate the Constitution because according to the 8th amendment , no cruel and unusual. The death penalty isn't cruel nor unusual. According to William J, he said “Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality, and in its enormity, but it serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment”  

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