CON TEAM EXAMPLE (research in internet) Source #1 http//nodeathpenalty.org/get-the-facts-six-reasons_oppose_death_penalty FACTS: Six Reasons to Oppose the Death Penalty The death penalty is racist. The death penalty punishes the poor. The death penalty condemns the innocent to die. The death penalty is not a deterrent to violent crime. The death penalty is "cruel and unusual punishment." The death penalty fails to recognize that guilty people have the potential to change, denying them the opportunity to ever rejoin society.  CON TEAM EXAMPLE (research in internet) Source #2 https//www.commondreams.org/news 2014/07/15kill- FACTS: We need to kill the death penalty, not people. Here are 2 reasons why, any one of which could be enough. 1) Democracy. The death penalty is totalitarian. I don’t want anyone killed in my name, in our name. When the government prosecutes, convicts, sentences, and executes defendants, we the people are the plaintiff. Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel famously said that in a democracy, not all are at fault, but everyone is responsible. The current system enforces that we citizens are co-responsible for our fellow citizens’ state-sanctioned murder, which is more akin to fascism than democracy. I dissent. 2) Barbarism. The death penalty is barbaric and an antiquated, regressive, “cruel and unusual” punishment. With all of our advances in the sciences, sociology, psychology, education, technology, and so on, we should have more socially-effective, non-lethal, civilized techniques to punish (and rehabilitate) criminals, while protecting the rest of society. Professor Austin Sarat estimates that “executions by lethal injection are botched at a higher rate than any of the other methods employed since the late 19th century, 7 percent.” CON TEAM EXAMPLE (research in internet) Source #3 www.bbc.couk/newsground/15007511 FACTS: §  The death penalty goes against our most basic human right - the right to life §  Being killed by lethal injection or being electrocuted is not always smooth and painless, sometimes it causes a painful death §  No-one has ever proven with numbers that killing murderers stops other people committing similar crimes §  Mistakes are sometimes made in the law - what if someone is killed who is actually innocent?