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[|Outline-"How to"] Outline Template I.  Introduction A.  I will write a review over the history and background of capital punishment. 1.  Capital punishment goes on all throughout time in the forms of stoning, guillotine, hanging, firing squad, poison gas, electric chair, and lethal injection. These punishments were used for everything between thefts, to adultery, to rebellious behavior in teens, to getting rid of a rival. 2.  In 2007, a total of 3,220 criminals were under sentence of death. 37 inmates were executed in 2008. B.  Even though criminals have to pay for their crimes, the death penalty should be abolished because the death penalty costs more than life in prison, capital punishment does not deter criminals from killing, and capital punishment causes more problems than solutions. II. Body A.  The death penalty costs more than life in prison. 1.  A lot of money goes towards court bills for the criminal. 2.  Keeping a criminal in prison for life costs around $50,000 while a criminal that will get the death sentence will usually end up costing over $150,000. 3.  A criminal can work during life in prison. B.  Capital punishment does not deter criminals from killing. 1.  Punishments are meant to prevent crimes from ever happening. 2.  States that have the death penalty have more murders than states without. 3.  Other countries have abolished the death penalty without an increase in murders. 4.  Murders usually are committed in the heat of the moment, so they do not think about the consequences C.  Capital punishment causes more problems than solutions. 1.  Killing the murderer will not bring back the victims. 2.  The family of the convict will suffer from their loss, even though they are innocent. 3.  All of the people involved in convicting the person will feel the guilt of killing someone. 4.  The convict could be innocent. III. Conclusion A.  Capital punishment should no longer be in use because it is an unnecessary cost, it does not prevent the crimes that it is given for, and the killing of a person makes more complications for all those involved. B.  Instead of killing convicts we should have them serve a life sentence without a chance of parole. Also, while in prison, they should work and all money earned should be sent to the family of the victims.