death penalty

In 1972, The Supreme Court declared that under then existing laws “the imposition and carrying out of the death penalty…constitutes cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments.” But within four years, due to hole in the system, the Court stated “the punishment of death does not invariably violate the Constitution.” They ruled that the new death penalty laws contained “objective standards to guide, regularize, and make rationally reviewable the process …showed first 75 words of 815 total…

…showed last 75 words of 815 total…of the equation. Opposing the death penalty does not mean sympathy with convicted murders. On the contrary, murder demonstrates a lack of respect for human life. For this very reason, murder is disgusting and authorized killing is immoral. In most murder cases, the murdered did not suffer as much as the murderer did if executed. Killing a human by execution, no matter by what method is unethical and should not be tolerated in society today.