Death Penalty
Introduction:
Death Penalty and Pardons:
The death penalty to many have the appearance of being unalterable, a strict binding set of rules that must be followed, with no other alternatives. However, this is far from the truth. In reality, capital punishment is forbidden to be administered to those with a mental illness, a legislation implemented in the majority of countries in the world today. This law was put into place after the case of Ford vs. Wainwright in 1986. During this case, held at the Supreme Court of the United States, it was ruled that the termination of a convit that is considered insane is restricted under the Eighth Amendment, stating restricting the government from imposing cruel and unusual punishment by a five person majority.
Instances of criminals being pardoned under this right include James Coburn and Kelsey Patterson, both diagnosed with a mental disease. The M'Naghten test is the most common way to determine if a person is considered insane. Mental illness has affected between five to ten percent of death row convicts. Having a mental disease may affect capital punishment in several different …show more content…
In the past years, studies have been conducted verifying that the cost of money spent of the on the death penalty is substantially higher than if this nation had decided to adopt eternal entitlement to life in prison as its final stage of discipline. Furthermore, during the course of persecution and death row, the highest expenses were revealed to arise before trial, or directly during it. Between 1973 to 1988 the amount of money Florida averaged per capital punishment averaged at nearly $3.2 million. As the years go by, this number rises exponentially. In California, the amount of money spent on exclusively the death penalty is $137 million annually. The amount of money exhausted by the state since 1978 totals to nearly $4
Introduction:
Death Penalty and Pardons:
The death penalty to many have the appearance of being unalterable, a strict binding set of rules that must be followed, with no other alternatives. However, this is far from the truth. In reality, capital punishment is forbidden to be administered to those with a mental illness, a legislation implemented in the majority of countries in the world today. This law was put into place after the case of Ford vs. Wainwright in 1986. During this case, held at the Supreme Court of the United States, it was ruled that the termination of a convit that is considered insane is restricted under the Eighth Amendment, stating restricting the government from imposing cruel and unusual punishment by a five person majority.
Instances of criminals being pardoned under this right include James Coburn and Kelsey Patterson, both diagnosed with a mental disease. The M'Naghten test is the most common way to determine if a person is considered insane. Mental illness has affected between five to ten percent of death row convicts. Having a mental disease may affect capital punishment in several different …show more content…
In the past years, studies have been conducted verifying that the cost of money spent of the on the death penalty is substantially higher than if this nation had decided to adopt eternal entitlement to life in prison as its final stage of discipline. Furthermore, during the course of persecution and death row, the highest expenses were revealed to arise before trial, or directly during it. Between 1973 to 1988 the amount of money Florida averaged per capital punishment averaged at nearly $3.2 million. As the years go by, this number rises exponentially. In California, the amount of money spent on exclusively the death penalty is $137 million annually. The amount of money exhausted by the state since 1978 totals to nearly $4