One of the most prevalent objections to the death penalty is its possible violation of the eighth amendment. According to the eighth amendment, the federal government is mandated not to inflict cruel and unusual punishment on its citizens. Some say that this barbaric practice of allowing the government to murder its citizens is not granted under our constitution. The death penalty has previously involved such cruel practices as shooting the convict to making the convict a conductor of electricity. How can we as a nation claim that this type of punishment is not cruel and unusual? Some claim that the methods used today are clearly not cruel because we, the society, allow these chemicals to work i

Searching for evidence regarding the inequality in the death penalty is interesting. Racial discrimination is prevalent in the death penalty especially in the cases studied in Georgia and Florida. In Georgia when a black kills a white twenty percent where sent to death row while when a white kills a black it is merely six percent who are sentenced to death, along with similar numbers in Florida. This disparity of the races is not representative of the community and needs to be addressed. The racial prejudices on juries allow for this discrimination. In addition to racial discrimination, socioeconomic discrimination is also prevalent. Juries are more likely to sentence a poor man from a poor neighborhood than a wealthy man from an affluent area to death. This is disturbing that merely because someone is rich, they do not have to face the same punishment for a similar crime. Discrimination is wrong in every case, especially when it affects whether someone will be living or dying. Others say that the death penalty is blind when it comes to race and economic position. Juries are purely convicting and sentencing criminals based on the nature of their crime. Statistics do not fully grasp the total aspects of the crimes committed. It must be looked on whether they are guilty or innocent, that is the only statistic the death penalty deems necessary. If a jury of their peers has unanimously found them guilty, then they should be accountable to the highest punishment of their life. Juries make their decisions on presented evidence with limited scientific evidence.

The thought that killing someone is a method to deter others from committing such crimes is absurd. All it is showing is the hypocrisy of the government. They tell us that taking life is morally and legally wrong, yet they themselves are killing these people. People who are committing acts that are eligible for the death penalty are usually not in the right frame of mind to be critically analyzing the situation prior to the act. One judge in Texas, Myron Love, the presiding judge in the county responsible for over ten percent of the nation’s capital punishment, states that he is not seeing the death penalty do its job to deter citizens from committing these heinous acts. It has failed to act as a deterrent from crime. This failure forces the issue of questioning why

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