First, the death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment, which is outlawed in our constitution. Most people argue that the death penalty is not a form of cruel and unusual punishment. However, this is extremely inaccurate. Electric chair victims can take up to fourteen minutes to die, being fully conscious as their flesh begins to burn off. During lethal injection, even a slight error in dosage or administration can leave a prisoner conscious but paralyzed with pain, causing him or her to watch their own demise.

Second, people who are sentenced to die are sometimes innocent. Amnesty International says that "from 1900 to 1985 over three hundred and fifty people sentenced to death were later found to be innocent of the crimes charged. Some escaped execution by only minutes, but twenty- three were actually executed. Within the last twenty years, fifty-four Americans under sentence of death have been released because of evidence

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