Convicted murderers should never be released

Considering the arguments which have been put forward by the proposition instead of incapacitation we propose capacitating them. One thing is very much evident that according to them once a mistake, blunder or an illegal act has been committed by a person then that person's life should be brought to an end by restricting that life to the walls of the prison only. This is an extremely inhumane and insane approach towards an issue as sensitive as a person's life and in this case even if a murder has been committed by the convict still what we are talking about is the life of a living soul. Just like the old saying “every criminal is a product of the society” proposition team proves that they are very much part of this society and not the society which believes in change, restitution and reformation because one life has gone does not mean that the one which is still there shouldn’t be given a chance to survive. Also the fact that counter arguing what they have put the rebuttal for the same is that once they have gone to jail and face the hardship they would not like to repeat it as they just want to go through all that again .The side proposition has also failed to realise the effect it will have on their family. If the person is a parent won’t it affect the condition of the of the family and boast their moral. Fine if a mistake is committed but he has already served imprisonment for 12 or more years so he deserves parole or companionship. An eye for an eye then the whole world will be blind and by not wanting to believe that a person can change, we'll let him die??How different are we all from the convicts then??

the last point put forward by the side proposition is that there can be no assurance that the person has reformed, then is how they suggest that let drug addicts also be confined indefinitely. what is the guarantee that the addict isn't going to resort back to drugs, so lets confine him also!

in most cases a convict comes from violent backgrounds where from childhood he grows up seeing people vent their anger through violence in such an environment the child grows up thinking that it a rational way of reacting and it becomes a habit. in situations like these when the person is put into jails ad given anger management classes he changes and thus he should be given a chance.
coming to the point that the convicts family will be scared of him, we feel that the family will want their loved ones coming out as a new person rather than watch him rot in jail.

if giving a person death sentence can be against his human rights how is keeping him in confinement for the rest of his life any less than death, so is it not against human rights as well.

according to the proposition, “If life imprisonment is set
as the minimum punishment, it will act as a deterrent for future
crimes. People will think twice before committing murder”. This
argument completely overlooks the significance of the intention behind
the punishment given to a convict. The major reason behind giving any
sort of punishment to a person found guilty of murder or any act is to
make them learn a lesson. But by sentencing them with life
imprisonment this intention cannot be fulfilled. The only result of
this step would be further acceleration of the detestation experienced
by the convict. A full stop will be put to any scope of improvement in
the person and it is easy to put a full stop but very difficult to
continue writing after the comma. We the opposition believe in
continuing writing. Also, according to a report, in Unites States of
America, the state spends more than $25,000 per inmate each year which
is more than $1 billion in total. We can easily imagine what the
figures will be if these convicts are made to live their entire lives
in the prison and if the setback to the economies as developed as USA
will be so substantive then we can easily surmise how disastrous an
effect it will have on the less developed countries like India,
Bangladesh,Pakistan,etc.The point that if u keep some one for the rest of their life in confinement then he will try and escape and when he does so he is more blood hungry than before. So by keeping him without giving him an opportunity we are in fact aggravating his anger. First that indefinite confinement does not deter the person from committing crimes in future .Second keeping him in confinement is violating his right to life instead it further elevates the feelings of detestation and resentment. Allowing him to languish in the prison will only frustrate him: not act as a deterrent

It seems that the proposition has a preconceived notion that 'once a murderer always a murderer'. All they believe is that as soon as the convicted murderer would be set out free, the very first thing he will do is to go out and start killing people again which is ridiculous and illogical. What we believe is that once the convicted has served his term in the prison and has been reformed, we see no reason why he should still be confined in the walls of the prison. Furthermore, what perplexes me is that the proposition has come out with an absurd argument that the prisoners are not at all tortured in the prison and they enjoy their food and shelter. The proposition is far away from the ground reality and is subjected to gruesome violence. The proposition seems to lack any substantial argument and they are just basing their arguments on a single point that the convicted murderer will always have the notion of indulging in homicide. What they fail to understand is that a person can be reformed by paying for his mistake i.e. by serving his term and which cannot be realized by allowing him to languish in the prison for his lifetime. "Who has not hated is not human, but who hates still, loses their humanity".
If the proposition connotes the reality as "Drama" then all we can do
is hope that the bubble they live in will burst some day and they will realize
the reality which shouts clearly that ,a mistake was
committed, the payment for the same was also made by serving
imprisonment for 12-15 years but now the time has come to implement
the correction or use the lesson which were corrected or learnt in the
corrective institution or jail to build a better future. There are several cases in which some
mistakes have contributed to a better character position and improved
the role or position in which a person works, which state and support
this reality that when this chance was given, efforts were made to use
them in the most effectual way possible which can be further proven by
the following article in a national newspaper .One of the major points is
that we can never be sure about the circumstances or the reasons which
had actually compelled the person to take the decision of taking
somebody's life. Moving on to our worthy proposition's point of "drastic difference"
between us and the convicts, all we have to say is that we agree that
they have murdered people and that is precisely the reason why they
are denoted as "convicted murderers" but the fact that we are not
ready to give them a chance to change or wanting to believe that they
can change and letting them die, isn't it instead of making us
"drastically different" is actually making us a part of them only??".
Also, as far as their point of "bad products of the society are made
only due to existing bad elements within the society" and "removing
them, just like we remove malignant cells from a patient ", we the
opposition would like to remind them that similar to this is the case
of moldings of the most unusable and worst form of iron, the pig iron
to wrought iron which is the most usable form which further helps in
improving the condition of the economic society just like the process
of reformation or moldings of a "convict" or "bad element" into a more
useful person thus helping in building a better society. Now, coming to
their point of how the prisoners are not being denied their human
rights and not being tortured, the opposition would like to again point
out that that maybe the proposition is forgetting that these convicts
actually experience the worst form of torture that exists which
destroys the person's very existence which is the "mental and
emotional torture" and the number of convicts who can actually bear
this violation of their human right is not extremely remote but zero.
moving ahead, we would like to point out once again that it was on the
basis of the propositions earlier argument according to which "if
capital punishment acts as a deterrent then that means that life
imprisonment will also act as a deterrent too" that we based our
argument which states that "since capital punishment is against human
rights, life imprisonment is too.". It seems the proposition is
contradicting themselves only by their present argument. Further coming
to their point of how we have supposedly "misunderstood" their
argument, our largesse will again allow us to remind our quite
forgetful proposition that how can they presume with such surety that
,( to quote them)"these convicts will never go outside the walls of
the prison, so we are not worried about whether he is angry or sad." ,
when they had themselves earlier stated that there are "resource-poor
countries like Bangladesh, Nepal, etc. which have police forces with
limited resources, without effective systems ". If, according to them,
there are so many chances of inefficiency in the developing countries
then the how can they be so sure that these convicts will not try to
escape??? and we think it can be guess as to how many escapes take
place from the prisons all over the world. This further proves our
earlier point that it is the indefinite confinement which is the
reason behind the culmination of hatred and resentment which compels
the convicts to opt for these steps. In the context of the arguments
made by the proposition, we would like to say that if these are the
ways through which they are trying to make the society a better place
then we are afraid to say that the only thing they are doing is put
the society at a much higher risk. They are "preventing" some more
"brilliant eyes" to enter the society and make it more visionary. The question that the proposition brought out about not knowing if the convict has changed when released, I would like to point out that we had already mentioned that it is only after observing a change in the behavior of the convict will he be released. they tried to counter our argument on human rights by saying that if life imprisonment is against human rights, so is confinement. I would like to clarify that keeping someone behind bars for the rest of his life is equivalent t death. He isn’t given another opportunity and is to live the same routine or the rest of their life. They said that by keeping them in confinement for the rest of their life they are doing them a favor, providing them with shelter and food but they are subjecting the convict to life long torture by the officers. They will be ridiculed, sodomised, insulted and beaten senselessly. And if the proposition wants to suggest otherwise, we would just like to point out that the country that believes the most in human rights – America could not assure it in Guantanamo Bay Further more lets talk about China, where the rule is so ruthless that they can mo down students for protesting, we are to believe that the convicts there will not be subjected to torture.

The proposition believes that the anger management programmes, counseling, sessions, medical facilities etc, as recommended by us, for helping the convicts are supposedly not "fool proof" .In
accordance with that. We might say that several other things are also not full proof. For e.g.: the security systems of the prisons, the police force etc of several countries and especially developing
countries like Bangladesh ,Nepal etc and thus convicts or prisoners can easily escape, so forth and so on. However, while analyzing the case presented by them, what we have noticed is that there is a hell lot of
a difference between the expenses which will be incurred on the basis of the reason, motive and result desired. One price will be paid to save a life and another to help in ending one. To facilitate the means
to an end. Along with this, with the price paid for the classes there will be a potential hope that those expenses surely can be reduced one day but with the policy of indefinite life imprisonment, we cannot
have any such hope and can easily imagine that in the long run, it will be the cost incurred in the proposition's policy which will be higher. Furthermore, the point of the proposition that confining the prisoner in the walls of the jail is economically viable also lacks substance and logic. They need to realize that cost per inmate is much higher than the anger management and other psychological activities. They seem to contradict their own statement by saying on one hand that Bangladesh is an underdeveloped country and on the other by saying that keeping the convicted murderers is economically viable. We wonder how that is economically viable since confining them in the prison would eventually mean setting up of more and more cells and employing more and more persons to supervise the cells which is not so viable for underdeveloped countries which lack the adequate funds and resources. We however feel that unless we give out clear examples it might be a little difficult to understand. Let’s say that once this model of theirs comes into force there are about 10 convicts who have been awarded life imprisonment. Now he state has to provide for these 10 convict and then there are 10 more the next month; they now have to provide for 20 and this number keeps increasing. Instead if they had a counselor the first 10 could have been released and the state would have to provide for less convicts and thus no matter what the time period we consider there will always be less convicts to provide for if they are released. "They need to realize cost per inmates is high. Also if life time imprisonment is the minimum punishment there will be a need to build more cells to provide space for the pre-existing convicts as well as the additional. Instead if there is a counselor then this counselor not only provides for the murder convicts but even those for other crimes as well