Capital Punishment Debate

Affirmative Constructive Speech
Resolved that the Illinois state legislature should reinstate capital punishment. Right before leaving office and one day before the opening statements of the racketeering trial of his former chief of staff were to begin, Governor Ryan decided to commute the sentence of all 167 condemned inmates in Illinois to life in prison. It has been said by many government officials that this order was just a "smoke screen" to deflect attention from a political scandal that was threatening to become the governor's legacy. It is obvious that the reason behind the mora…