8 - Jeremy Irons against death penalty

Key concepts and phrases: crime rates, capital punishment, human rights, the right to life is inallienable, torture, legal counsel, economical disadvantage, those without the mony get the punishment.

Arguments

Counter-arguments

1.       Crime rates are not lower in countries in which death penalty is used. 2.       The capital punishment is usually applied to those who can't afford good legal counsel. 3.       Death penalty provokes an irreversible damage. 4.       Death penalty against human rights not only because it violates the right to life but also because the waiting time tortures people psychologically. 5.       Human rights draw a line between what is ethical and what is not. 6.       Revange or justice cannot justify the violation of the accused's human rights. 7.       Those in favour of death penalty can also be considered as murderers.

1.       Crime rates can be reduced if death penalty as a punishment. 2.       Rich people have been submitted to the capital punishment as well. 3.       The death penalty implies an economical advantage. 4.         5.       The person who kills crosses the ethic line.