Death Penalty Debate

What is inherency?

• Action that creates change

• Action that prevents change

• barrier that creates change

• barrier that prevents change

For the Death Penalty Affirmative, What is the inherency argument?

• Legalized death penalty prevents the State from respecting human dignity

• Death penalty supports human dignity

• human dignity doesn't matter

• human dignity already exists

Which of the following Government Actors is responsible for the affirmative plan?

• Congress

• Department of Justice

• President

• Supreme Court

What is solvency?

• a drink additive

• evidence on how the plan can solve the problem

• evidence on how the plan prevents solving the problem

• a solution

Why is the affirmative plan an important idea?

• because it is fun

• because the plan supports human dignity

• the plan prevents crimes

• the plan supports the death penalty

What is the negatives' argument against inherency?

• Numbers of death penalty cases are decreasing

• death penalty cases increasing

• death penalty doesn't matter

• death penalty solves crime

According to the negative, how does supporting the death penalty uphold human dignity?

• It increases crime

• It causes cruel punishment

• It deters crime and provides punishment

• It allows for revenge

What is LWOP (in the negative death penalty case)

• Learn with other people

• Leave without opposing penalty

• Life without parole

• Life with parole

According to the negative, how would state courts circumvent the aff plan?

• State courts will ban the death penalty first

• State courts will act to support human dignity

• State courts will take on death penalty cases even if the Federal Government bans it

• The federal government will prevent state courts from using the death penalty

Other than the death penalty, what is another way the criminal justice system fails to respect human dignity

• low imprisonment rates

• educational opportunities for inmates

• dis-appropriate incarceration rates for people of color

• job opportunities for inmates