While capital punishment has been used since biblical times for many crimes ranging from theft, herecy, speaking out against government, and more serious crimes, many people refer to capital punishment as "cruel and unusual" punishment. This idea of cruel and unusual punishment has been brought before the supreme court numerous times. On July 1, 1976 by a 7-2 vote the supreme court decided that capital punishment was legal and was no

My thoughts on capital punishment are that capital punishment is, in fact, needlessly cruel.

Although capital punishment, in essence, seems like a good idea, here are many problems. First, many public groups oppose the death penalty saying that it is needlessly cruel and no one has the right to take away a life except for God. This always causes problems in a political sense. The cost of court costs is an outrageous amount. The prisoner is on death row normally anywhere from 5-15 years before executed. The main reason capital punishment is used, is to ensure that the prisoner, who is a violent offender, cannot escape from prison and commit another violent crime. The problem with that is in the U.S. we have very high security prisons and the chance of an offender escaping is almost 0 percent. The biggest problem is that in the last 10 years DNA testing has found over 70 people innocent that were either on death row or exe

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