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For this is my second journal entry and we are talking about the death penalty which I think it’s very necessary to kill someone but at same time that person has a life even if his life is meaningless. Myself as American is established on the system we have here today, for the worst crimes and life without parole is better but yet for so many reasons people do bad things to good people. But then again I don’t how people operate now these days on how people can justify one person life to make a life changing decisions. For what, what’s right for our country, if that’s the case it doesn’t decrease crime, delays the suffering of families murder victims, costs a whole lot more than life in prison, and, worst of all, and risks executions of innocent people. Capital punishment is just the nice term to call death penalty is …show more content…

Like this case Kennedy v. Louisiana, 554 U.S. 407 (2008) was trying sentenced this man named Patrick Kennedy to death after being convicted of raping and sodomizing his eight-year-old stepdaughter but due to the state law “The State Supreme Court affirmed the statute, rejecting petitioner’s reliance on Coker v. Georgia, which prevented the use of capital punishment for the rape of an adult woman.” How the this person didn’t get what he deserves by the eighth amendment which speaks that “Eighth Amendment's Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause did not permit a state to punish the crime of rape of a child with the death penalty” which I think is hogwash that a little girl don't deserve justice because she wasn’t in the right age the laws in the united states are very strict but amendments are those that makes it impossible to arrest

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