The Death Penalty violates the eight amendment, which applies to the fifty states as well. The term cruel and unusual punishment would be the reason of the violation. Beside the violation of rights the Death Penalty has not been proven to deter crime, victims of the Death Penalty are also found innocent in later years. The expenses for Death Row trials and inmates higher than other inmates, and the Death Penalty sentences are given to African American significantly higher than White Americans. The violation of the eight amendment which clearly states that citizens of the United States of America would not be subject to cruel and unusually punishment. Cruel and usually punishment would be consider unacceptable acts upon a person which causes
