8th Amendment Bars Cruel And Unusual Punishment
Hundreds of Americans are wrongfully sent to death row. This means that hundreds of people die innocently. Killing people for killing others is wrong in any situation. Though some people say when murder is punished with death, less people will commit the crime, murdering is uncivil, especially when the person is wrongfully accused. Killing someone for killing someone else is not an appropriate punishment. According to the Constitution the death penalty is uncivil. The Eighth Amendment bars cruel and unusual punishment. Several people say the death penalty is cruel. People that have family members killed are not usually wanting the other person killed, just locked up. In 2015, Dylann Roof opened fire in a church and killed nine people. Melvin
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Less than a year ago a man from Canada checked if Illinois still used the death penalty. When he found out they did not, he murdered a woman. The question that people ask is if the death penalty was still in effect would she still be alive? The Eighth Amendment bars cruel and unusual punishment. In the case Glossip v. Gross they said lethal injections did not violate the Amendment. In a lengthy dispute Justin Stephen Breyer argued that it is time for a “full meeting on a more basic question: does the death penalty violate the Constitution? Since 2007 seven states have abolished capital punishment. According to a news reporter, Kent Faulk, Ronald B. Smith was still slightly conscious when they gave him his lethal injection. Smith was gasping for breath, heaving, and coughing for 13 minutes. The people that inject the prisoner need to make sure the person is unconscious first. The death penalty is wrong and it should no longer be …show more content…
But the death penalty is uncivil, particularly when the person is wrongfully accused. The death penalty has left many innocent people dead. It is not right to punish someone when they are innocent. Work Cited
Bedau, Hugo A., and others. "Reasonable Doubts: The Growing Movement Against the Death Penalty." American Prospect Vol.15 No.7, Jul 2004, pp. A1-A23. SIRS Issues Researcher, http://sks.sirs.com.
Filipovic, Jill. "Dylann Roof is Evil. Don't Kill Him." CNN Wire Service, 13 Jan 2017, SIRS Issues Researcher, http://sks.sirs.com.
Heyns, Christof, and Juan Mendez. "Time to Kill the Federal Death Penalty." Wall Street Journal, 05 Nov 2015, pp. A.15. SIRS Issues Researcher, http://sks.sirs.com
Jacoby, Jeff. "When Murder is Punished with Death, Fewer Criminals Will Murder." Boston Globe, 26 Aug 2016, pp. K.5. SIRS Issues Researcher, http://sks.sirs.com.
Parks, Peggy J. Current Issues: The Death Penalty, Current Issues: The Death Penalty, 2012, SIRS Issues Researcher,http://sks.sirs.com.
Vox, Ford. "We can no Longer Mask the Barbarity of the Death Penalty." CNN Wire Service, 10 Dec 2016, SIRS Issues
Less than a year ago a man from Canada checked if Illinois still used the death penalty. When he found out they did not, he murdered a woman. The question that people ask is if the death penalty was still in effect would she still be alive? The Eighth Amendment bars cruel and unusual punishment. In the case Glossip v. Gross they said lethal injections did not violate the Amendment. In a lengthy dispute Justin Stephen Breyer argued that it is time for a “full meeting on a more basic question: does the death penalty violate the Constitution? Since 2007 seven states have abolished capital punishment. According to a news reporter, Kent Faulk, Ronald B. Smith was still slightly conscious when they gave him his lethal injection. Smith was gasping for breath, heaving, and coughing for 13 minutes. The people that inject the prisoner need to make sure the person is unconscious first. The death penalty is wrong and it should no longer be …show more content…
But the death penalty is uncivil, particularly when the person is wrongfully accused. The death penalty has left many innocent people dead. It is not right to punish someone when they are innocent. Work Cited
Bedau, Hugo A., and others. "Reasonable Doubts: The Growing Movement Against the Death Penalty." American Prospect Vol.15 No.7, Jul 2004, pp. A1-A23. SIRS Issues Researcher, http://sks.sirs.com.
Filipovic, Jill. "Dylann Roof is Evil. Don't Kill Him." CNN Wire Service, 13 Jan 2017, SIRS Issues Researcher, http://sks.sirs.com.
Heyns, Christof, and Juan Mendez. "Time to Kill the Federal Death Penalty." Wall Street Journal, 05 Nov 2015, pp. A.15. SIRS Issues Researcher, http://sks.sirs.com
Jacoby, Jeff. "When Murder is Punished with Death, Fewer Criminals Will Murder." Boston Globe, 26 Aug 2016, pp. K.5. SIRS Issues Researcher, http://sks.sirs.com.
Parks, Peggy J. Current Issues: The Death Penalty, Current Issues: The Death Penalty, 2012, SIRS Issues Researcher,http://sks.sirs.com.
Vox, Ford. "We can no Longer Mask the Barbarity of the Death Penalty." CNN Wire Service, 10 Dec 2016, SIRS Issues