death penalty against the 8th ammendment...?.....?

Question

i am doing this social studies debate and i have the one that is "the death penalty is against the 8th ammendment" dont criticize me cuz i didnt pick the topic or the side i am on. I was just wondering is anyone could give me come wedsites with something about the death penalty being against the 8th ammendment or you could tell me yourself....but please dont just tell me that it is like mean or w/e.

~please and thank you~

Answer 1

I'm a little rusty: is this the "cruel and unusual" ammendment?

If you want an answer to the question, check out whether or not the death penalty was prevalent and what methds they used.

I think you'll find that it was very common for certain crimes, and the method was to have a noose put around your neck and drop you through a hole. Sometimes you had to hang there until you were dead.

The founding fathers did NOT consider this method "cruel or unusual". The phrase was intended for entirely different means of punishing criminals, usually including public humiliation.

Answer 2

For it purely at the same time as there's 100% undeniable evidence they did it.The criminal has more suitable than adequate time to repent between the time they're arrested and the time they're accomplished.You assure they are going to under no circumstances repeat the crime back.we've a ninety 5% repeat criminal fee in this united states of america,that tells me the present "rehabilitation medical care" crap is an finished and finished failure.Why ought to someone like susan smith stay after murdering her personal 2 sons?she receives warehoused, eat 3 nutrients an afternoon watch television bypass to college and then get out on good habit after about 5 or 10 yrs.carry her on the generic public sq. and rather some women folk wondering about killing their youthful ones will replace their minds, their self esteem will strengthen and so will their psychological well being at the same time as they see previous susie swinging from the corporation end of a rope.GARE AND TEED! human beings say that is merciless and unusual punishment.They ignore all about the sufferer who become tortured and perhaps begged for his or her existence.both little boys strapped helplessly interior the vehicle and locked in at the same time as they could do no longer something.They screamed for his or her mommy, cried, held their breath the perfect they could then sucked in lung fulls of water and died.imagine about that for a lengthy time period.Executing those human beings would reduce the crime fee over nighttime.A rope doesn't fee a lot.

Answer 3

The eighth amendment is the one prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment. The death penalty is not unconstitutional but ...

Imagine being on death row for almost 18 years, knowing you may be executed any day, and knowing that you are innocent. Juan Melendez went through this, and was released when the courts finally looked at the confession (which they had all along) of another man.

Or the case of Ray Krone sentenced to death on the basis of faulty forensics, now a free man. Police and prosecutors resisted requests to revisit the case, but finally realized that the real killer was in a state data base when they finally got around to checking his DNA. Ray also spent years on death row.

These are real people. You can read about them and the 121 others who were freed from death rows with evidence of their innocence. It horrifies me that they could have been killed, in our name. Their stories are available at www.deathpenaltyinfo.org

Another thing is that the death penalty can be extremely hard on families of murder victims. They are forced to relive their ordeal, in courts and in the media, over and over again. Some of them have said that while they support the death penalty in principal, they prefer life without parole because of what the death penalty process does to families like theirs.

An execution creates a new set of victims, that is the families of the person executed. In addition to their grief, they are stigmatized for something that they did not do.

Carrying out a death sentence is very hard on executioners. Dow Hover, the last man to carry out executions in New York and in New Jersey, later committed suicide. Executioners and wardens in Mississippi and Alabama all attributed their mental and physical health problems to their involvement with lethal injection. There are more stories like these.

Cruel - yes. Unusual- sadly, no.

Answer 4

sounds like you are trying to take the easy way out. this is a sore political subject as at one time the law was passed that eliminated the death penalty across the board. {thats why charles manson still sits on death row.} Try googling death penalty you will probably pull up lots of info or go to wikopedia.com. good luck

Answer 5

At issue is whether the death penalty is 'cruel or unusual' punishment. In the case of a murderer, it clearly is not since the murderer already defined the 'acceptable' level of punishment in his worldview. Therefore, to him, receiving what he gave should not be considered cruel or unusual.

He should be killed in the same manner that he killed others, just to be sure it he would not consider it 'cruel or unusual'.

Answer 6

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?did=131&scid=21#Constitutionality

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?did=131&scid=21

http://www.derechos.org/dp/

Hope these help.