Death Penalty Debate

1b Evidence- Lex Talionis states “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and arm for an arm, and a life

for a life.” Proponents of the death penalty argue that criminals should have to pay for there crime as barbarically as they committed there’s.

1c Citation - Capital Punishment: Life or Death. University of Texas.

http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~tonya/spring/cap/group1.htm

2a Argument- Murder is not tolerable in our society.

2b Evidence- When a human being takes the life of an another, unsuspecting innocent, human being the

balance of justice is shifted. In seizing a viscous murderers life, the balance is then set equal. 74 murderers were executed last year, the equivalent of 4/10ths of 1% of the number of Americans murdered, if we execute all the criminals in these cases, we would prove to society that murder is not acceptable, and will be punished.

2c Citation- Jacoby, Jeff. "The Unjust Logic of Sparing Murderers"

< http://www.prodeathpenalty.com/Jacoby2.htm >.

3a Argument- Once a murderer, always a murderer.

3b Evidence- Since 1901, twenty-three Federal Correctional workers have been killed by i

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