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Death Penalty

In all the years the death penalty has been in use people always have debated if it is right or wrong. Some believe it's right because it will lower crime rates. Others say that it is wrong and it should be eliminated from the judicial system. I believe that the death penalty is immoral and should never be used. Many countries and states have different beliefs what a person's punishment should be, but the death penalty is just out of the question. The death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment (against eighth amendment), costly for the state, and many wrongful executions have been made due to judicial errors.
The death penalty is a cruel and unusual punishment, and therefore against the eighth amendment. As read in, The Death Penalty, "However advanced the aesthetics of a state death, an execution is still a killing, a legal homicide." Author Nicholas Jenkins is basically saying that the government is killing people in laws name, which is true. Execution harms a person......


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