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Why Was The Death Penalty Considered A Cruel And Unusual Punishment

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The Death Penalty The Death Penalty started in the eighteenth Century B.C. when it was established into the Code of King Hammurabi in Babylon, which codified the the Death Penalty for 25 different crimes.The Eighth Amendment states that the Death Penalty is considered a “cruel and unusual punishment,” which means that the Death Penalty is unfair to the persons getting the Penalty, but is also unconstitutional because it’s a punishment that ends the lives of people. So really you are killing the person that killed another or more, and you are just adding to the death toll. I oppose the Death Penalty because it could put innocent lives to death and costs way too much the country could afford to use. To actually conduct a Death Penalty …show more content…

If a person is about to get murdered, there is probably some witness to the crime or are part of the crime. If they the witness or person part of the skirmish, they would usually tell the police before or after the murder. If before, it could be easily avoided and the murderer would be sentenced. If after, the murderer would probably be gone from the crime scene and would require to be hunted. This supports my claim because murders could be avoided if we knew about beforehand, and we could save a lot of people from unreasonable death. So trying to avoid death as best as possible is one of the things that we all want to avoid, and the sooner murderers are gone, the …show more content…

The risk of innocent people being sentenced is high. About 14% of executions were of the innocent, and they weren’t found out until long after their execution. This supports my claim because too many innocent people are being executed against their will, and most of them aren’t even involved with the murder, just innocent bystanders who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. In conclusion, there is just too much risk of innocent bystanders being executed for doing nothing wrong, and we should get the facts and evidence straight before we go kill an innocent

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