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Good morning everyone. I am Sittie Fahieda aloyodan, the next reporter. The topic that I will be
discussing is all about capital punishment.
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the general discussion flow of my report includes the introduction, in favor and against the death
penalty or capital punishment
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Capital punishment is the practice of executing someone as punishment for a specific
crime after a proper legal trial.
And It can only be used by a state, so when non-state organizations speak of having
'executed' a person they have actually committed a murder.

It is usually only used as a punishment for particularly serious types of murder, but in some
countries treason, types of fraud, adultery and rape are capital crimes.

The phrase 'capital punishment' comes from the Latin word for the head. A 'corporal'
punishment, such as flogging, takes its name from the Latin word for the body.

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Since capital punishment is a very broad topic, I am going to focus on the arguments given in
favour and against of capital punishment.
So in favor of capital punishment the first one is retribution or justice
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Retribution
a reminder of the basic argument behind retribution and punishment:
• all guilty people deserve to be punished
• only guilty people deserve to be punished
• guilty people deserve to be punished in proportion to the severity of their crime
This argument states that real justice requires people to suffer for their wrongdoing, and to
suffer in a way appropriate for the crime. Each criminal should get what their crime deserves
and in the case of a murderer what their crime deserves is death.

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Deterrence
Capital punishment is often justified with the argument that by executing convicted
murderers, we will deter would-be murderers from killing people.
Deterrence is most effective when the punishment happens soon after the crime - to make an
analogy, a child learns not to put their finger in the fire, because the consequence is instant
pain.
So for example if you murder someone, yung consequence nun death penalty. Kaya
mababawasan yung crime rates

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Rehabilitation
Of course capital punishment doesn't rehabilitate the prisoner and return them to
society.
This arguments is trying to prove that By accepting the punishment of death, the offender was
able to expiate his evil deeds and so escape punishment in the next life. Hindi na nya
babayaran yung kasalanan sa next life kasi nga inacccept nya na yung punishment. this
demonstrates that the death penalty can lead to some forms of rehabilitation.

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Prevention of re-offending
It is undeniable that those who are executed cannot commit further crimes.

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Closure and vindication
It is often argued that the death penalty provides closure for victims' families.
This is a rather flimsy argument, because every family reacts differently. As some families do
not feel that another death will provide closure, the argument doesn't provide a justification for
capital punishment.

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A Japanese argument
This is a rather quirky argument, and not normally put forward.
Japan uses the death penalty sparingly, executing approximately 3 prisoners per year.
They believe that it has an important psychological part to play in the life of the Japanese, who
live under severe stress and pressure in the workplace.
The argument goes that the death penalty reinforces the belief that bad things happen to those
who deserve it. This reinforces the contrary belief; that good thing will happen to those
who are 'good'.
In this way, the existence of capital punishment provides a psychological release from
conformity and overwork by reinforcing the hope that there will be a reward in due time.
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Next po breakdown of the arguments given in favour of abolishing (or against reintroducing) the
death penalty.
Value of human life
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Everyone thinks human life is valuable right? Some of those against capital punishment
believe that human life is so valuable that even the worst murderers should not be
deprived of the value of their lives.
They believe that the value of the offender's life cannot be destroyed by the offender's bad
conduct - even if they have killed someone.

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Right to live
Everyone has an inalienable human right to life, even those who commit murder; sentencing a
person to death and executing them violates that right.
This is very similar to the 'value of life' argument, but approached from the perspective of human
rights.
To make this clear, for example - a person forfeits their right to life if they start a murderous
attack and the only way the victim can save their own life is by killing the attacker.

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Execution of the innocent
The most common and most cogent argument against capital punishment is that sooner
or later, innocent people will get killed, because of mistakes or flaws in the justice
system.
Witnesses, (where they are part of the process), prosecutors and jurors can all make mistakes.
When this is coupled with flaws in the system it is inevitable that innocent people will be
convicted of crimes. Where capital punishment is used such mistakes cannot be put right.
There is example evidence that such mistakes are possible: in the USA, 130 people sentenced
to death have been found innocent since 1973 and released from death row.

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Retribution is wrong
Many people believe that retribution is morally flawed and problematic in concept and practice.
We cannot teach that killing is wrong by killing.
U.S. Catholic Conference
To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, it is not justice.
More on like revenge lang daw ang nangyayari not justice

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People not responsible for their acts

Some countries, including the USA, have executed people proven to be insane.
It's generally accepted that people should not be punished for their actions unless they
have a guilty mind - which requires them to know what they are doing and that it's wrong.
Therefore people who are insane should not be convicted, let alone executed. This doesn't
prevent insane people who have done terrible things being confined in secure mental
institutions, but this is done for public safety, not to punish the insane person.

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Cruel, inhumane, degrading
Regardless of the moral status of capital punishment, some argue that all ways of
executing people cause so much suffering to the condemned person that they amount to
torture and are wrong.
Many methods of execution are quite obviously likely to cause enormous suffering, such as
execution by lethal gas, electrocution or strangulation.
Other methods have been abandoned because they were thought to be barbaric, or because
they forced the executioner to be too 'hands-on'. These include firing squads and beheading.
Lethal injection
Many countries that use capital punishment have now adopted lethal injection, because
it's thought to be less cruel for the offender and less brutalising for the executioner.
The first flaw is that it requires medical personnel being directly involved in killing (rather than
just checking that the execution has terminated life). This is a fundamental contravention of
medical ethics.

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Even though Capital punishment benefits society because it may deter violent crime. It is still in
considerable debate about both its morality and its effect on criminal behaviour