Instigator / Pro
7
1614
rating
17
debates
85.29%
won
Topic
#1351

The death penalty is inefficient at reducing crime and is immoral

Status
Finished

The debate is finished. The distribution of the voting points and the winner are presented below.

Winner & statistics
Better arguments
3
18
Better sources
2
12
Better legibility
1
6
Better conduct
1
6

After 6 votes and with 35 points ahead, the winner is...

MisterChris
Parameters
Publication date
Last updated date
Type
Standard
Number of rounds
4
Time for argument
One week
Max argument characters
25,000
Voting period
Two weeks
Point system
Multiple criterions
Voting system
Open
Contender / Con
42
1762
rating
45
debates
88.89%
won
Description

Note: PLEASE read the entire description before making a comment

Pro: Arguing that the death penalty isn't an efficient solution and is immoral

Con: Arguing that the death penalty is an efficient solution and is moral

Rules:

- In order to participate, I'd like to ask you first PM me and state that you'd like to debate me. The reason why I'm doing this is to prevent this from being a noob sniping in which a new user accepts the debate and then forfeits the entire debate. Because this is quite frequent and annoying, I'll be screening you to make sure you won't do this.

- If you have any disagreements with any of the description you MUST negotiate via PM before or early into the debate ( the first round ) and not during the debate itself.

- No personal insults.

- No Kritiks

- We'll specifically be tackling the death penalty in the United States and not in other countries.

- BoP is shared

Both debaters are REQUIRED to follow this structure

R1: Opening argument NO REBUTTALS

R2: Rebuttals

R3: 2nd Rebuttals

R4: Conclusion NO REBUTTALS

By accepting the debate you agree to these rules and if broken will cost you a conduct point.

Because this is a rather straight forward topic, definitions aren't exactly necessary.

This debate will be discussing the morality and logic of the death penalty in the united states.

Criterion Pro Tie Con Points
Better arguments ✗ ✗ ✔ 3 points
Better sources ✗ ✗ ✔ 2 points
Better spelling and grammar ✗ ✗ ✔ 1 point
Better conduct ✗ ✗ ✔ 1 point
Reason: really solid openers so the forfeit is regrettable. Pts. to CON for PRO's forfeit. As pinkfreud08 used to say, "That's bad conduct!"

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@MisterChris

Hehe. Very cheap, and botched less often than lethal injection. :)

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@bmdrocks21

One of my favorite quotes: "just reuse an old rope and hang'em, no cost!"

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@Pinkfreud08

Botched executions are a myth...if you adopt the firing squad ;)

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@MisterChris

yeah, long story short I procrastinated.

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@Pinkfreud08

Thanks for submitting, I got worried it would "forfeit" you

its really hard to say that states without the death penalty have significantly lower homicide rates, but it complicated, gun laws poverty rates democgraphics even weather play a role but its funny that states that ban the death penalty actually have lover homicide rates