Capital Punishment

Morally wrong

• Justifies the innocent lives taken.
• Destruction of Families.
• Execute to show murder is wrong.

murder

Destroys families

Deters Crime

• Deterring 74 murders each year. 
• Direct correlation with crime and the death penalty
• Criminal justice will be served to those who commit them

Serves Justice

Serves Justice

• Law of the Land. 
• Deterrent factor.
• Innocent lives.

Exoneration

• Some criminals have been exonerated
• Go in front of a court, and the jury decides. 
• Death penalty isn't always the case.  

Death Row

Counterargument

• Racial descrimination
• Courts are sworn by oath.
• Innocent until proven guilty

Black vs. White Prisoners on death row receiving the death penalty

Pie graph cont'd

• Higher population in that area. 
• 37 total prisoners. 

Conclusion

• Deter crime in distant future.
• Human nature
• 5 ways to die.

should be punished