as a whole of malnutrition. Many relieved themselves of suffering from the misery and committed suicide as a last resort. The criminals took advantage of the position of the government and take what others owned and provide themselves and their families(Lawrence,1). Financial troubles added to the increase in robberies in Seattle during the midpoint of the 1930s. Crimes such as grave robbing grew. One incident included a man willingly burying a woman alive on December 1932.
Robberies grew every day, causing banks to catch on to the crimes and set up new methods to prevent future robberies. These methods included equipping the building with tear gas, building the vault under the cage windows, and setting up alarms to call reinforcements as …show more content…
It was used more and more until it got to the point where workers were being hanged for entertainment. It made no economic sense to kill the men that could eventually help build and succeed as a whole. The most amount of deaths was because of people being killed for witchcraft, blasphemy or homosexuality. Over time, America turned away from the death penalty but was reinstated during the Great Depression. During the Progressive era, six states wrote a petition to outlaw the death penalty, three of which limited it only to crimes such as treason and first-degree murder of law enforcement officials. Everything was going great until the US entered the World War I. People panicked and five of the six states that planned to abolish the death penalty changed their plans so the death penalty was reinstated by the early …show more content…
Therefore considered unconstitutional and in violation of the Eighth Amendment. In the cases of crimes such as rape of female victims if they were not killed, crimes committed by the mentally challenged and crimes committed by juveniles under the age of sixteen were deemed unconstitutional (Dzwonkowski, 2).
After the Depression crimes rates dropped back to normal, everything snapped back to the way it was before the Depression. The death penalty only remained for some of the biggest offences such as treason, first-degree murder, and terrorism. The death penalty for minor offences was lifted. The economy going back to normal also provided jobs for the poor and the desperate decreased crimes on the street. This also gave the courts and prisons some
Robberies grew every day, causing banks to catch on to the crimes and set up new methods to prevent future robberies. These methods included equipping the building with tear gas, building the vault under the cage windows, and setting up alarms to call reinforcements as …show more content…
It was used more and more until it got to the point where workers were being hanged for entertainment. It made no economic sense to kill the men that could eventually help build and succeed as a whole. The most amount of deaths was because of people being killed for witchcraft, blasphemy or homosexuality. Over time, America turned away from the death penalty but was reinstated during the Great Depression. During the Progressive era, six states wrote a petition to outlaw the death penalty, three of which limited it only to crimes such as treason and first-degree murder of law enforcement officials. Everything was going great until the US entered the World War I. People panicked and five of the six states that planned to abolish the death penalty changed their plans so the death penalty was reinstated by the early …show more content…
Therefore considered unconstitutional and in violation of the Eighth Amendment. In the cases of crimes such as rape of female victims if they were not killed, crimes committed by the mentally challenged and crimes committed by juveniles under the age of sixteen were deemed unconstitutional (Dzwonkowski, 2).
After the Depression crimes rates dropped back to normal, everything snapped back to the way it was before the Depression. The death penalty only remained for some of the biggest offences such as treason, first-degree murder, and terrorism. The death penalty for minor offences was lifted. The economy going back to normal also provided jobs for the poor and the desperate decreased crimes on the street. This also gave the courts and prisons some