FOR AGAINST

1. It saves taxpayers’ money, as there are 1. All killing is wrong.

no more prison bills to be paid.
2. The death penalty violates human rights.
2. The death penalty works as an example
for potential criminals.
3. No price can be put on human life.

3. Most of the public 4. Executed ‘terrorists’ may

supports the death become ‘martyrs’.

penalty.
5. How can a court be 100
4. The death penalty acts as a deterrent percent sure that someone

and keeps crime at a lower rate. is guilty and should be

sentenced to death?
5. “An eye for an eye,
a tooth for a tooth” 6. Is there a “most humane” way of
executing someone?
6. It prevents future murders.
7. Some people are wrongly
executed.

8. The death penalty gives society the

message that killing may be OK and is an
option.

9. Mistakes are made. Unfortunately,

innocent people die.

10. People sentenced to death in the USA

often have to wait five years before they
are executed.

11. It is wrong to take away human life.

We must respect all human life.

12. The death penalty is irreversible.