Death Penalty Outline

I. Introduction
1. Using the death penalty, is using the power to decide who gets to live or die, and deciding the faith of someone, a decision that no person has the right to make.
2. The death penalty should be banned because it is morally wrong, unconstitutional, and a flawed system.
II. Body
1. First main idea: The death penalty is morally wrong.
i. Whether the criminals deserve to die or not, what gives the government or the people the right to decided. ii. The death penalty is inhumane; it is taking away the basic right of human life. iii. The American Civil Liberties Union stated "It [capital punishment] is immoral in principle, and unfair and discriminatory in practice... No one deserves to die. When the government metes out vengeance disguised as justice, it becomes complicit with killers in devaluing human life and human dignity. In civilized society, we reject the principle of literally doing to criminals what they do to their victims: The penalty for rape cannot be rape, or for arson, the burning down of the arsonist's house. We should not, therefore, punish the murderer with death... Capital punishment is a barbaric remnant of uncivilized society." Two wrongs don’t make a right; human life is not a learning lesson.
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Second main idea: The death penalty is unconstitutional.
i. The death penalty breaks the eighth amendment which prohibits the government from using cruel and unusual punishment; death is a very cruel punishment. ii. It also breaks the fourteenth amendment which states that “no one can be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law”, the law however is not always equal for everyone, many cases some are still deprived due to not being provided the same by the law. iii. The constitution was made to protect the people and set laws, by using the death penalty, laws are being picked and chosen of what parts to