Debate- Death Penalty-Against
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- Date Submitted: 09/02/2015 12:53 PM
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Good morning Madame Adjudicator, my name is ________ ______ and I am here today to talk to you about capital punishment. I have four main points to bring to you today. Firstly I will discuss the barbaric natures of the motion, secondly I will use God’s “law, thou shalt not kill”, thirdly I will examine the fact that it the death penalty is seen by some as state sanctioned murder and finally I shall outline the true motives of some people and the state when the death penalty is sentenced to a criminal. I hope that my points will allow you to see my point of view clearly and that I will leave you with some thoughts at the end.
We have all heard of those horrifying, bloodcurdling tales of faulty chairs, lingering death on the gallows or agony in the gas chamber. Because of this, many states with the death penalty in use have changed to execution by lethal injection. Trends in most of the world have long been to move to less painful, or more humane, executions. France developed the guillotine for this reason in the final years of the 18th century. Hanging by turning the victim off a ladder or by kicking a stool or a bucket, which causes death by suffocation, was replaced by long drop "hanging" where the subject is dropped a longer distance to dislocate the neck and sever the spinal cord. Shah of Persia introduced throat-cutting and blowing from a gun as quick and painless alternatives to more tormentous methods of executions used at that time. In the U.S., the electric chair and the gas chamber were introduced as more humane alternatives to hanging, but have been almost entirely superseded by lethal injection. However, even the most civilised and modern method of execution has been criticised as being too painful. Whilst the state are sentencing people to death, society still possesses a moral instinct, “execution can never be made humane through science”. Society has become so civilised that we see the death penalty as unacceptable and even as far as appalling....
We have all heard of those horrifying, bloodcurdling tales of faulty chairs, lingering death on the gallows or agony in the gas chamber. Because of this, many states with the death penalty in use have changed to execution by lethal injection. Trends in most of the world have long been to move to less painful, or more humane, executions. France developed the guillotine for this reason in the final years of the 18th century. Hanging by turning the victim off a ladder or by kicking a stool or a bucket, which causes death by suffocation, was replaced by long drop "hanging" where the subject is dropped a longer distance to dislocate the neck and sever the spinal cord. Shah of Persia introduced throat-cutting and blowing from a gun as quick and painless alternatives to more tormentous methods of executions used at that time. In the U.S., the electric chair and the gas chamber were introduced as more humane alternatives to hanging, but have been almost entirely superseded by lethal injection. However, even the most civilised and modern method of execution has been criticised as being too painful. Whilst the state are sentencing people to death, society still possesses a moral instinct, “execution can never be made humane through science”. Society has become so civilised that we see the death penalty as unacceptable and even as far as appalling....