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Leah W
my view on the death penalty is that no matter what we as humans are all on the same level of equality. Nobody should be able to verdict if another person should be put to death or not. thats not our job. its "gods" or time or your own. im aware that it is very expensive to keep a prisoner in jail but you cant put a price on a persons life. no matter what they've done i believe EVERYONE deserves a second chance.making them sit in jail there whole life will do alot more than just to kill them off. it will make them think about what they've done wrong.death is the easy way out.
I'm not sure if this is the right spot to post but:
I am moderate when it comes to the death penalty. On one hand, it is good because it helps to relieve the victims families, and it means a less likely chance that a prison guard will be stabbed or something like that. On the other hand, it means that the state has to pay more money for the execution and the appeals process and stuff like that. and it also can wreck the ruined persons family. It is also much more of a punishment to remain in jail your entire life then to be executed.
I don't think that the death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment. When that eighth amendment was written it was to prevent the "cruel and unusual punishments" that were happening in that time. One example of this is cutting of some ones hands if they stole something. That is to extreme a punishment for the crime, but if you killed 4 people then the death penalty would fit the crime and there fore not be cruel and unusual.
I would rather have it that life in prison would be the charge. This would be a better charge because if the man was wrongly accused then he could be let out of jail, but if they were killed then they wouldn't be able to give him a second chance. Even though this would be a better punishment it is not likely to happen. It costs way to much money to keep them there and the chances that they would stay in jail for life is slim. A lot of the time people get let out on probation. This is why capital punishment is not unconstitutional but still is not the best punishment. -Joris Van Zeghbroeck
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Leah W
my view on the death penalty is that no matter what we as humans are all on the same level of equality. Nobody should be able to verdict if another person should be put to death or not. thats not our job. its "gods" or time or your own. im aware that it is very expensive to keep a prisoner in jail but you cant put a price on a persons life. no matter what they've done i believe EVERYONE deserves a second chance.making them sit in jail there whole life will do alot more than just to kill them off. it will make them think about what they've done wrong.death is the easy way out.
I'm not sure if this is the right spot to post but:
I am moderate when it comes to the death penalty. On one hand, it is good because it helps to relieve the victims families, and it means a less likely chance that a prison guard will be stabbed or something like that. On the other hand, it means that the state has to pay more money for the execution and the appeals process and stuff like that. and it also can wreck the ruined persons family. It is also much more of a punishment to remain in jail your entire life then to be executed.
I don't think that the death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment. When that eighth amendment was written it was to prevent the "cruel and unusual punishments" that were happening in that time. One example of this is cutting of some ones hands if they stole something. That is to extreme a punishment for the crime, but if you killed 4 people then the death penalty would fit the crime and there fore not be cruel and unusual.
I would rather have it that life in prison would be the charge. This would be a better charge because if the man was wrongly accused then he could be let out of jail, but if they were killed then they wouldn't be able to give him a second chance. Even though this would be a better punishment it is not likely to happen. It costs way to much money to keep them there and the chances that they would stay in jail for life is slim. A lot of the time people get let out on probation. This is why capital punishment is not unconstitutional but still is not the best punishment.
-Joris Van Zeghbroeck
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