Should The United States Abolish The Death Penalty?

The death penalty is well known in the united states. Most states are still using the death penalty but 19 states abolished the death penalty because they feel as if it's cruel and unusual punishment. The 8th amendment states that “to the United States Constitution is the part of the United States Bill of Rights (ratified December 15, 1791) prohibiting the federal government from imposing excessive bail, excessive fines, or cruel and unusual punishments, including torture.” The other 33 states has considered it but just haven't abolished. It may or may not come. The following states that has abolished the death penalty. (alaska 1957, connecticut 2012, hawaii 1957, illinois 2011, lowa 1965, maine 1887, maryland 2013, massachusetts 1984, michigan

There are pros and cons about the death penalty. One of the cons of the death penalty is that the punishment is very painful and unusually, known as the 8th amendment. The 8th amendment states that to the United States Constitution is the part of the United States Bill of Rights (ratified December 15, 1791) prohibiting the federal government from imposing excessive bail, excessive fines, or cruel and unusual punishments, including torture (stevenson 2004). Also the budget of the death penalty is far more than the average sentence as in being put in prison, everything that is needed for an ordinary case is needed for the death penalty more so, more pre-trial time, more expert, twice as many attorneys, to trails instead of one trial will be conducted, and then will come a series of appeals during which the inmates are held in the high security of death row(richard c. dieter 2007). The actual price of the death penalty are millions of dollars but for the is around 45,000-57,000$ which is an huge difference. An pro of the death of the death penalty in the past 25 years 86 people has been freed from it the death row because they were found innocent. Death row is a prison block or section for prisoners sentenced to death. The con of that situation is what if the person that has been executed has been found innocent after the death what do you do? That is a little too late to answer. One of the major pros of the death penalty is that Common sense, lately bolstered by statistics, tells us that the death penalty will deter murder... People fear nothing more than death. Therefore, nothing will deter a criminal more than the fear of death life in prison is less feared. Murderers clearly prefer it to execution(ernest van den haag