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Should the death penalty be reinstated in the country?

I. Introduction
a. Introduction of the Topic
 While the death penalty has no history because it was created with
mankind, the theory defines two significant periods in capital punishment
history that span the eighteenth century.
 Prior to this, the death penalty was used to punish a wide range of crimes,
and its different methods of execution were distinguished by not just
killing, but also by inflicting the most pain and suffering on the victim.
b. Background of the Topic
 The immediate, insensitive, and prompt application of capital punishment
thesis is proposed in response to the commission of crimes and significant
crimes, with the goal of restoring society's normative trust in legal norms
and law.
 By killing the criminal, society is able to recover from the upheaval
caused by the crimes, and potential criminals are terrified and convinced
of the repercussions of their actions.
 The harshness of the penalty has a dual effect: on the one hand, it allows
society to rekindle its faith in the norms and restore its faith in the law,
while on the other hand, it helps to inspire dread in those who intend to
conduct criminal actions.
c. Thesis Statement
 The death penalty should be abolished since it is ineffective in punishing
offenders and combating crime.

II. Body
a. Counterclaim
 The penalty turns an individual's death into a public spectacle.
 Victims are frequently executed in front of large crowds.
 Public executions serve no justifiable purpose and only add to the
punishment's demeaning, inhumane, and cruel nature.
 Public executions are a heinous affront to human dignity that
cannot be condoned.
 After the due judicial process has been thoroughly followed, no
legislative, judicial, or executive body should have the right to provide the
remedy of grace to people who have been sentenced to death.
 This theory implies that no authority has the authority to substitute
a prison term for the death penalty, even if it is life imprisonment.
The judge's sentence must be followed to the letter.
 The appeal to grace can specifically lessen the dissuasive effect of
the death penalty.
 The right to life cannot be both a right for individuals who have
committed extremely heinous crimes such as kidnapping and murder, and
a right for others who have not.
 In my perspective, everyone who commits extremely significant
crimes forfeits his or her right to life. It is undeserving of
existence. It is a societal blight that must be addressed.
 It may be argued that the State protects life in Philippines;
nevertheless, to protect life, the State, that is, the entire legal
community of citizens, may need to order the elimination of those
who have committed extremely terrible crimes through valid
judicial authority.
b. Your argument
 Despite the arguments of those who support it, capital punishment is not
an effective deterrent to crime.
 It lacks the deterrence effect that its proponents frequently
mention.
 There is no solid proof of the death penalty's deterrence value.
 A growing number of legal professionals are seriously doubting
the penalty's effectiveness in deterring crime.
 The penalty does not apply equally to all criminals, as some are sentenced
to death due to poor legal representation.
 One of the most common reasons for reversals in death sentence
cases is ineffective assistance of counsel.
 Whether or not someone is sentenced to death is primarily
determined by their capacity to pay for a high-quality defense.
 The death penalty cannot be reversed once it has been carried out.
 As a result of absolute judgments, people may end themselves
paying for crimes they never committed.
 After being executed, a Texas man was proven to be innocent.
 Criminal justice systems should use sentencing procedures that
allow individuals to be released free if more proof proves their
innocence after they have been punished.
 The death sentence is not entirely deterrent.
 It does not deter someone from committing the really terrible
offenses that the penalty is intended to punish. In general, no
criminal legislation can be totally deterrent; murders are committed
even if the perpetrators face the death penalty, and robberies are
perpetrated even if the perpetrators face a jail sentence.
 Therefore, it is not legitimate to claim that the death penalty is
ineffective because it does not prevent murders from occurring, or
that incarceration for conducting robberies is ineffective because it
does not prevent robberies from occurring.
III. Conclusion
 The death sentence does not successfully treat crime as it is claimed to.
Instead, it violates the human right to a dignified death and to die peacefully
and out of the public eye.

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