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Sam Frank
P.5
February 24, 2009

ISP Outline

Thesis: Capital punishment should be outlawed as a form of criminal punishment in the U.S

1. The death penalty is not a deterrent of crime.
A. The use of he death penalty as a form of punishment has not affected crime rates in any country.
B. Murderers aren't always able to fully comprehend the repercussions of thier actions, from reason of insanity or other disease.
C. Execution are harmful to the Public, and might make a murderer a matyr. If we don't torture torturer, we don't rape rapist, why do we murder murderers?

2. Capital punishmment is unjust and discrimnatory.
A. Defendents facing death can often not afford a good lawyer.
B. Scientists and health prffesionals are still unsure if the forms of death penalty currently in use cause any physical pain to the victims.
C.Mentally ill and minors are not proctected agianst recieving the Death penalty.

3. With the death penalty, the is a chance of killing an innocent person.
A. Many people have been released from death row after being proven innocent.
B. In the past, it has been shown that capital trials have had errors in evidence.
C. The Death penalty doesn't allow for redemption.