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Should The Death Penalty Be Abolished?

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Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, thank you for coming to the 2016 annual debate competition. I am a representative student from Biss Puxi, an international school in Shanghai. I am here to debate why the death penalty is the utmost brutal, cruelsome act of mankind.

Have you ever speculate about what it would be like to be confined in the most unhygienic claustrophobic case for hours and hours, day after day, thinking that in a split second could be the last-minute on earth? For many people on death row, this is a reality; this is their life. How would you feel if you are one of them? The death penalty also known as the capital punishment is the most excruciating sentence of all: death. Forms of capital punishment are the electric chair, lethal injections, and hanging. It has been abolished in the UK in 1965 and since then there have been many attempts to reintroducing the death penalty. But why is that? Well, many argue that it’s better to just dispose of those unneeded; it’s better to be 'safe than sorry'. And they believe that we should risk killing murderers to protect society. However, I truly …show more content…

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