Capital punishment has always been a subject that people normally do not like to talk about because people, especially the government, knows that capital punishment is an unconstitutional cruel and unusual idea. Capital punishment should be used by states to execute a prisoner, given that the evidence that is against them is substantial enough and beyond a doubt calls for a death sentence.
Even though capital punishment is rare and slowly decreasing (Source A), the fact that it continues to exist is the general problem with it. Capital punishment itself would go against the 8th Amendment, saying that “…cruel and unusual punishments [would not be] inflicted” and the fact that the American government would overlook this very clear part of the Constitution is very worrisome because they could do this with many other Amendments. In my opinion, capital punishment is unjustified in every way and should not exist because the best substitute for capital punishment is lifetime in prison provided with rehabilitation options for the guiltily …show more content…
Lethal injections are obviously the most common of the bunch because it is considered the least painful type of punishment. Nineteen states have made capital punishment illegal because they can see that the death sentence is unconstitutionally cruel and unusual because many people who are sent to death are there because of their race. North Carolina acknowledged that the majority of the death cases have been because of racial tensions and the state implemented the Racial Justice Act that allowed people on death row to present evidence of them being on death row due to racial issues (Source F). What is extremely troublesome about this is that people actually tried to repeal the act because the prosecutors knew that was true, which shows how unusual the circumstances of capital punishment
Even though capital punishment is rare and slowly decreasing (Source A), the fact that it continues to exist is the general problem with it. Capital punishment itself would go against the 8th Amendment, saying that “…cruel and unusual punishments [would not be] inflicted” and the fact that the American government would overlook this very clear part of the Constitution is very worrisome because they could do this with many other Amendments. In my opinion, capital punishment is unjustified in every way and should not exist because the best substitute for capital punishment is lifetime in prison provided with rehabilitation options for the guiltily …show more content…
Lethal injections are obviously the most common of the bunch because it is considered the least painful type of punishment. Nineteen states have made capital punishment illegal because they can see that the death sentence is unconstitutionally cruel and unusual because many people who are sent to death are there because of their race. North Carolina acknowledged that the majority of the death cases have been because of racial tensions and the state implemented the Racial Justice Act that allowed people on death row to present evidence of them being on death row due to racial issues (Source F). What is extremely troublesome about this is that people actually tried to repeal the act because the prosecutors knew that was true, which shows how unusual the circumstances of capital punishment