Is the death penalty cruel & unusual punishment? Give three Facts.?

Answer 1

Assuming that you are talking about here in the United States; In order for someone to be eligible for the death penalty they would have to kill at least one person and probably more. My question is: is their death by lethal injection any more cruel than what they did to their victims? So my answer is, they are getting better than they deserve when they are executed and it is too humane.

Answer 2

1. The USA is unable to prevent accidental execution of innocent people.
The wrongful execution of an innocent person is an injustice that can never be rectified. Since the reinstatement of the death penalty, 123 men and women have been released from Death Row nationally....some only minutes away from execution. Moreover, in the past two years evidence has come to light which indicates that four men may have been wrongfully EXECEUTED in recent years for crimes they did not commit. This error rate is simply appalling, and completely unacceptable, when we are talking about life and death.
2.Executions are carried out at staggering cost to taxpayers.
It costs far more to execute a person than to keep him or her in prison for life. A recent New Jersey Policy Perspectives report concluded that the state's death penalty has cost taxpayers $253 million since 1983, a figure that is over and above the costs that would have been incurred had the state utilized a sentence of life without parole instead of death. "From a strictly financial perspective, it is hard to reach a conclusion other than this: New Jersey taxpayers over the last 23 years have paid more than a quarter billion dollars on a capital punishment system that has executed no one," the report concluded. Michael Murphy, former Morris County, NJ prosecutor, remarked: "If you were to ask me how $11 million a year could best protect the people of New Jersey, I would tell you by giving the law enforcement community more resources. I'm not interested in hypotheticals or abstractions, I want the tools for law enforcement to do their job, and $11 million can buy a lot of tools."
3.Millions could be diverted to helping the families of murder victims.
Many family members who have lost love ones to murder feel that the death penalty will not heal their wounds nor will it end their pain; the extended process prior to executions can prolong the agony experienced by the family. Funds now being used for the costly process of executions could be used to help families put their lives back together through counseling, restitution, crime victim hotlines, and other services addressing their needs.
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Answer 3

No.

There is only one needed relevant fact: the death penalty was approved of by the Founders and has been in use since the creation of the United States.

Answer 4

It is only cruel to the victim's family and friends. (1)They have to wait years, just to have a murderer peacefully put to sleep. (2) They don't get to flip the switch that puts the scum to sleep. (3) The scum doesn't have to die in the same manner as their victim(s).
This is the only way that it can be considered cruel and unusual punishment.

Answer 5

no,i dont think so.

1 the person convicted had to have commited some horendous crime like killing someone else or maybe a dozen people.

2 they execute them in a civil way,like injections 1st put them to sleep,then the other toxins enter there body & kill them,so they goto sleep.

3 cruel & unusual punishment is torturing them to death,like the a**holes in baghdad that torture & kill innocent people + they mutilate them!

Answer 6

No its not because A. it's painless B.they deserve it C. it's the eye for an eye policy

I agree with DamDog

Answer 7

Do your own homework research!