Against The Death Penalty
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Submitted by melenv on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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Against The Death Penalty
Death Penalty Why I am against it
As a United States citizen living in a democratic society, I believe that the death penalty is unconstitutional. It is an irrevocable act that always denies "due process" to those sentenced to such barbarity. Those that have been executed will never benefit from any new evidence or laws that may prove them innocent because they are already dead!
The death penalty does discriminate, therefore violates our constitutional right for equal protection. Most people sentenced to the death penalty are poor, mentally ill, and uneducated. The majority are people of color especially if their victims were white. If the victims were not white, the chances of receiving a death sentence would be much smaller, if at all. In some cases, adults have been executed for crimes committed when they were children!
The VIII Amendment states "
nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted". The death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment. If the law states that killing is a crime, why should it be allowed by any state in our country to kill? How is killing someone in this manner any different from me killing you? As a civilized society, we should not use vengeance as a way of justice. The death penalty is not a deterrent, it is vengeance!
The death penalty is not a solution for our society's crime problems. If what lies beneath the causes of crime are not addressed, how can the death penalty be a solution for any crime? There has never been any study that proves beyond a reasonable doubt that the death penalty does deter murder; the death penalty doe not deter murder.
Most capital crimes are committed during moments of great emotional stress or under the influence of drugs or alcohol, when one is not in control of all his faculties. In such cases, violence is inflicted by persons who do not care about the consequences to themselves or to others. As for terrorists, the death penalty is a futile threat because...
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