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The 8th Amendment Of The Death Penalty

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Is he a mad man or a killer? The question the court is now asking as the jury is now trying to figure out his punishment. In 1843 an old man in his 70’s was killed. The man who killed him as admitted to killing him. The man said that he had nothing against the old man it was his eye that bothered him. The man also said that he has a disease. That statement changed the court case to figure out his punishment. Based on the evidence present in the 8th amendment of the Death Penalty the main character should be sentenced to life in prison because the narrator did kill the man, plan the murder, and dispose of the body in a cruel and unusual way. To begin the man had been planning this for quite a while. “I was never kinder to the old man than during …show more content…

“The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed not dulled them.” (Poe, 1843) What disease is he talking about? The question the jury is asking. What disease would make you stronger. No normal man will ever say that he is stronger from a disease. He also claims he heard things from the heavens and the hells. What is this man talking about? Has he heard bad things and good things or what? This man is clearly still a killer, although his thoughts and his claims do seem unusual. He knows that he killed him and could be facing life prison so maybe, he is faking it to get out of it. According to the definition of voluntary slaughter, The crime of killing another person unlawfully in circumstances that amount to …show more content…

“I watched over him for 8 night” (Poe, 1843) The man watched over the old man for 8 nights. He would put a lantern in his room so he could see his face, but the man never actually killed him because he was never able to see his eye. One night the man made a sound he did not mean to make but this led to the old man waking up. The eye was now open and clear to see. It was pitch black in the room so the old man could not see who it was. But the man saw the old man clearly and waited for his chance to kill him with putting a bed on his face. In the story the man also feels guilt after killing him. He realizes what he did was wrong, while the police are at his house having a good time. He then confesses to the police about what he did. No mad man would have guilt. The man clearly committed voluntary manslaughter for the fact that he planned the murder, and carried out on it according to the plan. He is not a mad man because of this. A madman would also be considered a sociopath. And if you are a sociopath you are unable to feel empathy. The man felt guilt after killing the old

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The old man was dead.” Without a doubt, he was satisfied knowing that he was going to kill the man, as he was smiling to know he was starting. He even took the time to listen to the heartbeat- until it stopped. That means he enjoyed knowing this man was going to die- and that’s something a violent schizophrenic would be able to enjoy. Furthermore, he was relieved once he was dead, as his head would not “bother” him anymore.

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The murderer was sitting above where he did the body, police say. No one knows why the murderer did what he did or why he confessed. However, the only thing that the police got out of the man is that he kept on explaining how he was not insane, and how much of a genius he was. The murderer has been charged with 35 years in prison. “I

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This is the instance in the case where he could be charged with a very long sentence, There is no counter argument because they already have all of the evidence that he is guilty of this murder case. Next, the narrator had no reason to kill the old man. The narrator told the people that he hated the eye, so he decided to kill the old man to be free of it. A counter argument that is often used in this instance is that he is insane. This could help the narrator in court, but he would still be charged with murder.

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He had the eye of a vulture-a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold: and so by degrees-very gradually- I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus get rid myself of the eye forever. Poe, Edgar Allen. The Tell-Tale Heart.

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Difficult, protracted executions constitute infringement of the eighth Amendment, which forbids savage and surprising discipline. Capital punishment disregards the privilege to life as announced in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It is a definitive remorseless, cruel and corrupting

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—They suspected! —They knew! —They were making a mockery of my horror!” The cops didn’t know what happened to the old man and didn’t suspect that the narrator killed him. Due to the narrator’s guilt and paranoia, he ended up confessing to the murder of the old man.

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It bothers him so much that he plots to murder the old man, even though he says that he loves him, and hates only his blind eye. The narrator, though the opposite is apparent, insists that his meticulousness in committing the murder shows that he can’t possibly be insane. “I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.” (Kennedy, p.187) For seven nights, the narrator opens the door of

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In today’s day and age, a person does not get put to death for just any crime. A recurring argument against the death penalty is that sentencing a defendant to death violates the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition. The Eighth Amendment protects against cruel and unusual punishment. Mental illness is expressly recognized as a mitigating factor in most death penalty statutes. The Supreme Court came to the conclusion in the case of Ford vs. Wainwright that the use of cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment to execute a person whose mental state renders understanding of capital punishment is impossible.

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calmly I can tell you the whole story” (Poe) trying to persuade the reader of his sanity. From the beginning that the narrator trying to explain his sanity makes him seem very much insane. He is the caretaker for an old man that he loves, and even says has never done any harm to him. He just cannot get over his “vulture” like eye that has a blue film over it. His blood goes cold whenever the eye met his.

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This is exactly the reason the narrator has killed the old man, because of his “evil eye”. Not only is this ridiculous on its own, but the narrator directly states that he loved this man. “I loved the old man. He had never wronged

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However, he didn’t do this. Instead, the narrator didn’t try to kill the old man because one of the old man’s eye, which was the narrator’s motive for killing the old man, wasn’t open. The narrator knew his motive for killing the old man, so he didn’t try to prematurely kill the old man. He waited until the old man opened the eye that he despised, which happened on the eighth night that he sneaked into the old man’s room. The narrator would have tried to kill the old man on the first night that he sneaked into the old man’s room, if he didn’t have control over his behavior.

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Was this man a calculated killer, or delusional madman? What should his penalty be for his actions? The story “Tell Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe is about a man with a self-proclaimed “disease”, who decides takes another mans life. The narrator gives the motive for the killing being the eye of the old man killed. The killer for one week, stealthily watching him sleep trying to get a glimpse of the eye.

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Yes, it was this He had the eye of a vulture.” (page 381, Poe) The man had thought to kill the man because of the look of his eye, though he said he loved the old man because he had never wronged him. For a prosecutor that wants to put him in an institute, they could argue that he was sick and had a disease that sharpened his sense to destroy. For instance, while he was planning to kill the old man he had felt an awful drumming, a hellish tattoo.

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“I've heard many things in the heaven and in the earth. I've heard many things in hell”(Poe). In the story The tell tale heart, a man ends up killing his old man over his “Vulture eye”. He loved the old man. But his “evil eye” vexed him and he decided to take his life.

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