Oral Arguement:
Thesis Statement- No one deserves to die.
Point 1: -Who decides who gets life and who gets death?
Point 2: -Capital Punishment is expensive.
-A California state commission reported in June that its death penalty system costs more than $100 million a year to administer
Point 3: -Conditions of death row harming to mental health of both families of inmates and inmates themselves
-"...inmates spent an average of 10-15 years on death row often in deplorable condition, and that many of them were suffering from mental disorders."
Point 4: -There is an unacceptable risk that an innocent person will be executed and that it is being administered in a racially discriminatory way.
-Tell the story of Matthew Poncelet and the state giving him not enough money to hire a good lawyer. (Two men at the scene of the crime: one gets life and one gets death)
-People's minds change - tell story of Masaharu Harada and Toshihiko Hasegawa.
Point 5: -There is no way to justly execute a person.
-Explain the flaws of hanging and electric chair, then how lethal injection works and why it is truly not that much better.
Point 6: -There are outerlying circumstances
-Ephedra
-Trauma
-Scarring childhoods
-Mental conditions
Ending Point: -Nothing worthwhile will come out of an execution.
Visual:
Explain general story of "Dead Man Walking" then:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH8AhmT5Sqk
^movie
http://www.dallasnews.com/img/photo/09-02/fox17.jpg
http://www.helsinki.fi/~tuschano/cp/wyoming.gif
http://www.dialoginternational.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/12/16/capital_punishment.jpg
http://www.adsneeze.com/media/2007/10/capital-punishment-1o.jpg
http://patdollard.com/wp-content/uploads/image.jpg
http://images-cdn01.associatedcontent.com/image/A3938/39382/300_39382.jpg
http://ndn3.newsweek.com/media/86/Death-Penalty-Peri-Lithwick-horizontal.jpg
http://filipspagnoli.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/hangingpa_468x4811.jpg
http://cubus-adsl.dk/elteknik/billedopslag/elmuseet_elektrisk_stol.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/38/112938863_1968fd4331.jpg
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/img/04-07/0415edideathmain.jpg
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/haymarket/execution.jpg
http://dianedew.com/images/elec-chair.jpg
http://www.deathrow-artwork-thornton.com/prefillable-syringes.jpg
http://templars.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/m197400560386.jpg
http://images-cdn01.associatedcontent.com/image/A2892/28928/300_28928.jpg
http://research.uvu.edu/lavange/rope.jpg
http://www.deathrowspeaks.info/photogallery/li003.jpg
http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/lethal-injection-execution-chamber-raleigh.jpg
http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/lethal-injection-map.gif
^slideshow (from ceiling? or just behind me when i talk - need to talk to Alex Hadik)
Interactive:
Tape cell on floor and make ppl sit/lay down/stand in it.
