TITLE: ONE LIFE FOR ANOTHER: UNJUST AND BARBARIC

INTRODUCTION

HOOK: The death penalty is not a deterrent it is unjust and barbaric.

BACKGROUND: For years, the Philippines sentenced people to death for so-called

heinous crimes. But President Macapagal-Arroyo abolished the death penalty in

2006, and since then loud protests are heard whenever a horrible crime is

committed and they start to clamor for its reinstatement to give justice not only

to the big teams but also to the traumatized society at large.

POINT: that penalty violates the most basic of all human rights. it is inhuman

and irreversible, it also discriminates against class and race, and government

can easily weaponize it. most importantly, the death penalty fails to achieve its

primary goal of being an effective deterrent for crime.

BODY

ARGUMENT 1: “Don't killers deserve to die?” Everyone does not deserve to die.

When the government disguises justice as vengeance, they have no difference

from killers in devaluing human life. Even we, as a civilized society, reject the

idea to punish criminals exactly the same way they treat their victims;

punishment for rape can't be rape. We should not, therefore, punish killers by

murdering them too.

ARGUMENT 2: A senator suggested imposing that for plunder, but Dela Rosa

said it would not work, “because, to be honest, most politicians are involved in

corruption, do you think they will vote to be killed? of course not, they will put a

stop to that law.”

REFUTE: “Death penalty is an effective deterrent against crime.” capital

punishment, has caught not been proven to be an essential safety measure,

becuase it has not been proven to lower crime rates, hence it cannot be justified.

By implementing death as a potential punishment, rational and intelligent people

might be discouraged from committing crimes, but killers are rarely acting and

thinking rationally when they commit their crimes.

CONCLUSION

The death penalty is a brutal remnant of an uncivilized society. It is immoral,

unfair, and discriminatory. with the judicial system we have, the execution of

some innocent people is insured. it serves no purpose and no effect as a

deterrent. And with this twisted system in place, how can we expect the death

penalty, if reinstated, to be implemented justly and for the goal of greater good?