In the past three years the United states has killed 97 people and the most recent one was October 7th 2015(DPIC). The death penalty is a resource that the government has always used and if we as the to solve problems and take care of inmates and it has always been a very controversial topic. But you may ask if the death penalty is so bad why hasn 't it been banished yet from the United States? Considering we are the number one superpower in the world. If the United States were to abolish the death penalty it would start a chain reaction of other countries that have yet to abolish it would now consider it.
An excuse that many people use for the United States still having the death penalty is; it keeps crime rates down. But it is a cruel and …show more content…
But countries that are industrialized nations are the United States and Japan (Parks). A report was done in 2011 of how many people were killed by the death penalty are “527 highest numbers of executions are held in China , Iran, North Korea, Yemen, United States” But That number is only of people that were recorded down but China is blamed for not giving all records of how many people they kill each year that go all the way up to the thousands of their prisoners an amnesty researcher says “‘ China still executes more people than the world put together”’ and I wonder why they keep all their information about their executions a secret? It is because they don’t want the world to find out of how cruel and how abusive and obsessed they are with the death penalty. f that information would leak or be exposed to the general public there would be an uprising in their communist …show more content…
In a way yes it is unconstitutional the eighth amendment prohibits the federal government from “imposing excessive bail, excessive fines, or cruel and unusual punishments, including torture.” And if you read carefully it says cruel and unusual punishments and then we have the death penalty that it is a cruel way of punishing someone and some people argue that death by lethal injection is a cruel way of dying “The move was a tacit admission that the lethal-injection procedure (which has changed as pharmaceutical companies have ceased production of several lethal drugs) is now so unreliable that shooting a man at close range is the more humane option” ( Marazziti). Having the option of being executed by fire squad could consider that torture and an unusual
An excuse that many people use for the United States still having the death penalty is; it keeps crime rates down. But it is a cruel and …show more content…
But countries that are industrialized nations are the United States and Japan (Parks). A report was done in 2011 of how many people were killed by the death penalty are “527 highest numbers of executions are held in China , Iran, North Korea, Yemen, United States” But That number is only of people that were recorded down but China is blamed for not giving all records of how many people they kill each year that go all the way up to the thousands of their prisoners an amnesty researcher says “‘ China still executes more people than the world put together”’ and I wonder why they keep all their information about their executions a secret? It is because they don’t want the world to find out of how cruel and how abusive and obsessed they are with the death penalty. f that information would leak or be exposed to the general public there would be an uprising in their communist …show more content…
In a way yes it is unconstitutional the eighth amendment prohibits the federal government from “imposing excessive bail, excessive fines, or cruel and unusual punishments, including torture.” And if you read carefully it says cruel and unusual punishments and then we have the death penalty that it is a cruel way of punishing someone and some people argue that death by lethal injection is a cruel way of dying “The move was a tacit admission that the lethal-injection procedure (which has changed as pharmaceutical companies have ceased production of several lethal drugs) is now so unreliable that shooting a man at close range is the more humane option” ( Marazziti). Having the option of being executed by fire squad could consider that torture and an unusual