1b Evidence- Lex Talionis states "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and arm for an arm, and a life

for a life." Proponents of the death penalty argue that criminals should have to pay for there crime as barbarically as they committed there's.

1c Citation - Capital Punishment: Life or Death. University of Texas.

http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~tonya/spring/cap/group1.htm

2a Argument- Murder is not tolerable in our society.

2b Evidence- When a human being takes the life of an another, unsuspecting innocent, human being the

balance of justice is shifted. In seizing a viscous murderers life, the balance is then set equal. 74 murderers were executed last year, the equivalent of 4/10ths of 1% of the number of Americans murdered, if we execute all the criminals in these cases, we would prove to society that murder is not acceptable, and will be punished.

2c Citation- Jacoby, Jeff. "The Unjust Logic of Sparing Murderers"

< http://www.prodeathpenalty.com/Jacoby2.htm >.

3a Argument- Once a murderer, always a murderer.

3b Evidence- Since 1901, twenty-three Federal Correctional workers have been killed by i

9a Argument- Heinous crimes deserve a like punishment.

television, they have more than the average poor citizen. The prisoner also receives visitation from their family members, and the family of the victim, will never get to see there loved one again. The murderer is still in a better position, than the victim. This is why; we should value human life, and execute the guilty. Value of human life: "It is by exacting the highest penalty for the taking of human life that we affirm the highest value of human life." (Edward Koch).

6b Evidence- When someone's life is so abruptly ended, the family is left shocked, saddened, angered,

5b Evidence- To live, is a right. Without a given reason, no one should be denied the right to live.

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