The death penalty is a serious thing in the United States of America, and the three branches of government, the executive, the legislative, and the judicial branch all take the death penalty very seriously; the executive branch include the military, and the executive branch has to make decisions and enforce death penalty laws within the military; the judicial branch of government has to decide who should and who should not face the death penalty; the legislative branch for each state has to decide on laws on the death penalty for their state. The executive branch is in charge of the military. When a member of the military commits a serious crime, they are sometimes punished with the death penalty. In the past 100 years, the Army has used the death penalty on 135 people in the military. This was done by lethal injection. There are currently six people on the military death row. They are all men, and two are white, three are black, and one is from the Middle East. If a member of the military is on death row, then the president of the United States has to affirm that the person should …show more content…
This month a Supreme Court Judge from Ohio named Evelyn Stratton said in court that there should be a ban against the death handicap who have committed terrible crimes. Justice Stratton pointed out that people with mental disorders are not to be considered any differently from anybody with a disability or a juvenile who is not capable of fully knowing what they are doing. justice Stratton also added that the United States of America is not a society that wants to be known as one the puts the mentally handicapped to death when they commit a capital crime; this would include people with certain diagnosis like bipolar disorder, depressive disorder or depression, schizophrenia, and delusions or delusional