Whats is the Price for Death
The death penalty is the most inhumane, cruel and degrading form of punishment. The effectiveness of the death penalty has never been proven to be a deterrence of crime then any other form of punishment. Execution is irreversible and can be inflicted on the innocent. The cost of one person on death row far exceeds that of a person in prison for life. Race is also a factor in sentencing a person to death. Lastly political influence is a factor in which a person lives or dies. Since the founding of our government, putting a person to death for murder and until recently rape, has been the only cure. More than 13,000 people have been legally executed since colonial times. As many as 150 people were executed a year by the 1930’s. By 1967, legal challenges and public outrage halted executions, pending several court’s challenged outcomes. During that time the rise or fall in murders did not change. In the 1972, Furman vs. Georgia, the Supreme Court retracted hundreds of scheduled executions, citing state laws were applied in an unjustly manner violating the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment, and the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantees of equal protection of t
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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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