Good morning doctor and my classmates

The topic for our debate is the capital punishment

We agree with the definition given by the affirmative team

However we, the negative team, believe that this statement is false

Today as a first speaker I will be talking to you about the execution of

the innocent because of the death penalty

Our second speaker will be talking about capital punishment is more

expensive than alternative punishmintes

Our third and last speaker will be talking about the human rights of
the one being executed

The first speaker from the affirmative team has tried to tell you

Today I’m going to talk about the execution of the innocent:

The death penalty is irreversible. Absolute judgments may lead to

people paying for crimes they did not commit.

There is many evidence that such mistakes are possible: According

to amnesty international in the USA, 130 people sentenced to death
have been found innocent since 1973 and released from death row.

Now you might say they are released from the death row so whats the
problem ?

Do you know that the average time on death row before these
exonerations was 11 years.

Now imagine how the continuous threat of execution makes those

wrongly convicted feel every day.

Now what about the innocent who were executed ?

There is no way to tell how many of the 1510 people executed since
1976 may also have been innocent.

Take for example,Texas man Cameron Todd was executed in Texas in

2004 for allegedly setting a fire that killed his three daughters.
Following his execution, further evidence revealed that Todd did not
set the fire that caused their deaths. But it came too late.

In conclusion:

The death penalty legitimizes an irreversible act of violence by the

state and will inevitably claim innocent victims. As long as human
justice remains fallible, the risk of executing the innocent can never
be eliminated

I would like to say that our team believes that capital punishment is
not the only way to justify justice there is many other ways to do that.

2. It doesn’t deter criminals

There is no credible evidence that the death penalty
deters crime more effectively than a prison term. In
fact, evidence reveals the opposite.
Since abolishing the death penalty in 1976, Canada’s
murder rate has steadily declined and as of 2016 was
at its lowest since 1966.
The death penalty doesn't seem to deter people from
committing serious violent crimes. The thing that
deters is the likelihood of being caught and punished.
The general consensus among social scientists is that
the deterrent effect of the death penalty is at best
unproven.
In 1988 a survey was conducted for the UN to
determine the relation between the death penalty and
homicide rates. This was then updated in 1996. It
concluded:
 ...research has failed to provide scientific proof that
executions have a greater deterrent effect than life
imprisonment. Such proof is unlikely to be
forthcoming. The evidence as a whole still gives no
positive support to the deterrent hypothesis.
The key to real and true deterrence is to increase
the likelihood of detection, arrest and conviction

 Free time gets teens into trouble.