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Created with Fabric.js 1.4.5 Loss of territories - productive land,industries and raw resources Does not deter crimes Scientific studies have consistently failed to demonstrate that executions prevent people from preventing crime. Capital Punishment is barbaric and violates the "cruel and unusual" clause in the Bill of Rights. ShouldCapital Punishmentbe Abolished? Capital punishment or the death penalty is a legal process whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime. The judicial decree that someone be punished in thismanner is a death sentence, while the actual enforcement isan execution. 41% of all U.S. executions took place in Texas. Innocent Lives at Risks The risk of executing innocent people -no matter how developed a justice system is, there have been and will be cases of executionto innocent people. Racially Biased Since 1977, 77% have been executed for killing Caucasian Americans even though African Americans make up more than half of all homicide victims. The death penalty costs taxpayers more than life imprisonment. Sends a wrong message Why kill people who kill people to show that killing is wrong? Incompatible with human rights and human dignity Capital punishment violates the right to life which happens to be the mostbasic of all human rights. Think death penalty is necessary Think the death penalty is not necessary 35% 65% Americans think... We are the "state." When the "state" kills, we are participants Would you choose to be the person that pulls the switch that ends a human life? Messerli, Joe. "BalancedPolitics.org - Death Penalty (Pros & Cons, Arguments For and Against, Advantages & Disadvantages)." BalancedPolitics.org - Death Penalty (Pros & Cons, Arguments For and Against, Advantages & Disadvantages). N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Dec. 2014. M, Meggie. "Pros & Cons of The Death Penalty." The Death Penalty Pros and Cons. N.p., 31 Mar. 2012. Web. 14 Dec. 2014. "U.S. Death Penalty Facts." Amnesty International USA. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Dec. 2014. http://goo.gl/forms/yluf60RFjb
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