write a debate in 150 - 200 words eiher for Oragainst
the motion:
capital punishment should be abolished
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IamthemotherofamurdervictimandIserveonthe board of directors of Murder Victims' Families for Human Rights (MVFHR), a national non-profit organization of people who have lost a family member to murder or state execution and who oppose the death penalty in all cases. There are MVFHR members in every state.
Discussions of the death penalty typically focus on the offender, the person convicted of murder. My focus, and the focus of those whom I am representing through this testimony, is on the victims of murder and their surviving families.
Losing a beloved family member to murder is a tragedy of unimaginable proportions. The effects on the family and even on the wider community extend well beyond the initial shock and trauma. The common assumption in this country is that families who have suffered this kind of loss will support the death penalty. That assumption is so widespread and so unquestioned that a prosecutor will say to a grieving family, ''We will seek the death penalty in order to seek justice for your family.'' A lawmaker introduces a bill to expand the application of the death penalty and announces that he is doing this ''to honor victims.'' A politician believes that she must run on a pro-death penalty platform or risk being labeled soft on crime and thus unconcerned about victims.
As a victim's family member who opposes the death penalty, I represent a growing and for the most part under-served segment of the crime victim population. Along with the other members of MVFHR, I have come to believe that the death penalty is not what will help me heal. Responding to one killing with another killing does not honor my daughter, nor does it help create the kind of society I want to live in, where human life and human rights are valued. I know that an execution creates another grieving family, and causing pain to another family does not lessen my own pain. . . .
My husband and I were both raised in homes with a deep-seated religious faith. We w
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