By terminating the life of a murderer, the number of deaths only increases and it brings nobody back. The moral slogan of "eye for an eye tooth for a tooth" has many problems, one of them being that by trying to cause suffering to an individual for the suffering they cause other people only adds more suffering to the table. Punishment should never be be prioritized over rehabilitation because it directly takes away the dignity of a human and prevents a potential better person from coming out. Throughout history, the death oenalty has been enforced to prevent that person from doing more harm to the community but with the current prision systems that we have, we have no real need to cause the death of someone when we could just lock them for life

you're assuming that justice morally equates to taking the life of a bad person but that isnt necessarily true since you also get rid of the potential good that person could have brought if they were properly rehabilitated and re introduced to society which would add good to the previous evil rather than the emotional appeal of fighting evil with evil

my opponent needs to directly cite evidence rather than lazily paraphsasing it. You constantly appeal to your emotions and your so called "gut" feelings to brush off my main arguments and try to shift the goal poast to something when you haven't even ebgaged witb my argument