The electric chair, hanging, gas chambers, and death by firing squad are all unnecessarily inhumane and hence, in my personal opinion, should all be declared by the White House to be unconstitutional. According to the Preamble to the Constitution, every citizen is guaranteed the right to “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness,” and since the first few words guarantee life, the death penalty itself would, technically speaking, be unconstitutional. I aver that even a murderer may sometimes feel guilty about what he or she has done. Another reason against capital punishment as stated in, “The Innocent on Death Row,” demonstrates that sometimes even the innocent are sometimes put on death row, because Henry Lee McCollum, who was nineteen at the time he was tried, and his half-brother, Leon Brown, who was fifteen at the time he was convicted, were both convicted and sentenced to death. Ever since they were released, the death penalty was made illegal for minors and mentally handicapped
The US Supreme Court’s decision on the abolition of capital punishment was correct because capital punishment violates the eighth and fourteenth amendments, provides no evidence of deterioration of crime rates, and falls unequally on society. Violates Eighth Amendment:
The moral of the death penalty is that when someone commits a heinous crime, they should be prosecuted in a way that is equal to their crime. Robert Blecker, JD said that "We have the responsibility to punish those who deserve it, but only to the degree they deserve it...." This states that people should get what they deserve. If they go out and commit homicide or murder for fun they should get the same treatment. Losing someone can be tragic, but losing someone because a criminal killed them is even worse.
According to, the Eighth Amendment, the author states that, “…decisive rejection of the attack in McGautha v. California. Nonetheless, the Court then agreed to hear a series of cases directly raising the question of the validity of capital punishment under the cruel and unusual punishments clause, and, to considerable surprise, the Court held in Furman v. Georgia that the death penalty, at least as administered, did violate the Eighth Amendment. ”(findlaw.com). The evidence shows that although the Supreme Court rejected the questioning of capital punishment in McGautha v. California, it later reconsidered the issue in Furman v. Georgia and ruled that the death penalty violated the Eighth Amendment under cruel and unusual punishments. This highlights one of the major obstacles in death penalty cases, which is the constitutional challenge to the validity of capital punishment.
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Capital punishment, or the death penalty, is a legal process in which a person is put to death as a punishment for a crime by the government of a nation. The United States is in the minority group of nations that uses the death penalty. There are thirty-three states that allow capital punishment and seventeen states that abolished it (Death Penalty Information Center). The morality of the death penalty has been debated for many years. Some people want capital punishment to be abolished due to how it can cost a lot more than life imprisonment without parole, how they think it is immoral to kill, and how innocent people can be put to death.
The most common argument people like to claim is the death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment. The article “The Death Penalty Is Not Cruel and Unusual Punishment” acknowledges this statement “How is executing Karla Faye Tucker by lethal injection any [more] cruel than the way she used a pick-ax to viciously butcher two people to death?” People deserve the death sentence for committing a hideous and unethical crime. The government shouldn’t allow a person like Karla Faye Tucker to live. The government needs to purify and purge the nation by allowing more death penalty.
As of April 1, 2015, there are 3,002 inmates currently on death row. Greg Wilhoit spent five years of his life on death row for a crime he was wrongly convicted for. On June 1, 1985, Greg’s wife Kathy was viciously murdered in Oklahoma. About a year later Greg was arrested and charged with Kathy’s murder because two dental “experts”, one whom had been out dental school less than a year, testified that a bite mark found on Kathy’s body matched Greg’s teeth. While on trial Greg was assigned a new attorney which helped him to get a new trial, during the new trial forensic odonatologists examined the bite mark and testified that it could not be mark’s and was let out on bail.
Capital Punishment is the punishment by death received for breaking the law. Capital punishment is also known to be called Death penalty. The death penalty will always be around. It is a way that the government keeps people in line, well at least that 's what the government thinks. Capital punishment isn 't something someone thinks about when committing a crime punishable by death when they do it.
Should the death penalty/ capital punishment be a thing? The death penalty should not be legal, because it has no place in today 's society. The death penalty has been around since at least the eighteenth century B.C. Now the U.S. still has the death penalty in 31 out of the 50 states. While some may say it seems barbaric to still have a death penalty, the U.S. says it 's used as a crime deterrent.
In case the offence escapes, or something unfortunately happens, more innocents will die. However, people have the right to live. Moreover, if the offence is wrongly convicted, his or her life is ruined. In Just Mercy, there are many cases that told us about wrongful conviction and imprisonment by some reasons. Stevenson mentions, “My short time on death row
Exonerated death row inmate Kerry Max Cook stated in an interview, “I don't think there's any words in the English language to explain what it's--what it's like to--to sit on Texas death row… convicted but innocent and being put to death.” Twenty two years of Cooks life was spent in prison for a crime he did not commit until DNA evidence proved his innocence, warranting his release. Since 1974, 144 convicted murders have had their innocence proven, removing them from death row in America. The primary purposes of the death penalty is to bring closure to the victims family, however, taking another life will never bring the victims life back. Despite being innocent, countless others have been executed for crimes they did not commit.
The Death Penalty or the Capital Punishment should be considered illegal due to all of the things that are wrong with it. First of all the 8th amendment even says that there should be no cruel or unusual punishments for breaking the law, which the death penalty violates. Second the methods that they kill people sometimes don’t work and make the recipient die in pain and agony. Third of all 19 states already don’t allow it and some people are innocent that end up getting executed. So this shows why the death penalty should be abolished because the 8th amendment, the cruel methods used, and if we fixed this it would result in a safer and better society.
What do you classify as cruel? Abusing animals, abusing people, or maybe murdering someone in cold blood? Would you classify the death penalty as cruel? Not all states have the death penalty, for instance Michigan doesn’t have the death penalty, but Texas does. The death penalty is a state law, so every state's opinion on the death penalty is different.
The purpose of supporting prisoners is to allow them to better their lives. Time is always required for anyone to learn from their mistakes. Keeping all that in mind, executing a criminal doesn’t allow them to reflect on the significance of the offense they have committed. Overall, it is important to remember that people must have a second chance in life to learn from their past experiences.
