Abolition of the Death Penalty 1-AC Version 1.0 My partner and I stand Resolved: that the United States Federal Government should ratify or accede to, and implement The Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights aiming at the Abolition of the Death Penalty Observation 1: Definitions In order to facilitate clarity and promote clash we exercise the affirmative right to define by offering the following definitions. should: is used to express moral …showed first 75 words of 2141 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2141 total…labor, so for any one prisoner the amount of money contributed to a victim’s fund would be small. Still, a lifetime of labor multiplied by thousands of condemned prisoners could yield significant savings in the cost of incarceration, and could create a significant pool of money for victim’s families. By adding an element of restitution to the sentence of convicted murderers, we could show that we despise murder but we respect human life.”