Death penalty should be Abolished in Japan

I take affirmative position for the proposition, that death penalty should be abolished in Japan.

There are three reasons why I take affirmative position on this proposition;
① Nobody has the right to kill any person and killing murderer by death penalty is same as murder.
② Death penalty costs enormous amount of money and it costs more than life imprisonment.
③ Death penalty does not deter crime rate; in fact, it raises crime rate.

I am going to discuss second point on this issue. Not many people know or realize the costs of death penalty. Do you know how much a death penalty cost? I guess not. This is because this kind of information is not needed in our daily life. However, we should focus on the issue more and take it more seriously for the future.

To start off with, I would like to talk about costs of death penalty in US. US hold massive debt and one of the reasons for the debt is due to death penalty. I believe that US should spend more money on other aspects like education and heath service rather than spending enormous money on death penalty. Now I would like to quote a piece of evidence from book called “The Death Penalty” written by William Dudley. Unquote. Could you take a look at figure 1? This shows the costs of the death penalty in two states from US, Texas and North Carolina. In Texas, $2.3 million is spent per death penalty and in North Carolina; $2.16 million is spent per death penalty. Let’s compare this with the costs of life imprisonment. I would like to quote another piece of evidence. This time source is from internet called “The economics of capital punishments” . Unquote. Now please take a look at figure 2. This shows comparison between the costs of the death penalty and costs of life imprisonment. In Florida, death penalty costs estimate of $3.2 million while life imprisonment only costs $17,000 per year. In Texas, death penalty cost $2.3million per year, in contrast to $12,000 per year for a life imprisonment. This is enormous difference. In fact, Death penalty costs three times more than death penalty and this has created many problems for US. This resulted in financial crisis in US police department. They are out of the budget due to spending too much money on death penalty and this problem became even worse as US police department decided to sack many police men to cut the outcomes. Therefore, fewer policemen are on the streets to stop crimes, when more policemen are needed to stop the crimes.

Same could happen in Japan as Japan is in similar situation to US. Japan like US hold enormous amount of debt as country and the debt is getting bigger and bigger. If Japanese society and government want to cut the outcomes, they have to cut the budget for less important materials. That is I believe death penalty. This is because there are other ways of the justice for crime other than death penalty like life imprisonment for example and I don’t see the point in death penalty when life imprisonment is more effective and cheap.

Now I would like to conclude my opinion. I believe that death penalty should be abolished due to the cost. As in US, from death penalty, they have created many problems like unemployment and financial crisis. This is just breaking the peace of the daily life. Japan can not go the same way as US and to stop this, Japan has to find solution now. Therefore affirmative proposes a change in the present system to abolish death penalty for economical reasons and for the future. To create better life for the people we have to do it now.

This is why I take affirmative position for the proposition, Resolved: That death penalty should be abolished in Japan. I appreciate for your kindness of listening to me. Thank you.