Economics

The death penalty is indeed a “cruel and unusual” punishment according to the 8th Amendment, putting individuals into the death penalty is inhumane, since any form of death is painful regardless of its quick or not. It’s also expensive for prisons to kill inmates compared to keeping them; since the materials required executing an inmate is pricey. Another important issue connected to death penalty is that many old cases lack evidence, risking a wrongful execution. Individuals include young adults, children and mentally challenged. To put any human through the death penalty is morally injustice.

Inmates are human; they are individual who pay taxes to the state. They should have the right as every human, this isn’t to say, we should let them roam freely into the streets but rather, make prison livable. To strip away someone’s dignity is one of the crucial things one can do to another human. Every inmate should do his or her time instead of being put to death, an injustice act in the Justice System.  The fact that we can simply remove a person from this world, shows that the Justice System role as playing God.

Lethal injections have become the most common way to kill an inmate in the death penalty, the injection called Pavulon which has many controversies surrounding it, since it doesn’t bring the individual to unconsciousness this gives them the ability to feel everything that is being done to them. This injection makes the inmate unable to speak, so in a way, they are voiceless to express their emotions surrounding their pain. Making this punishment “cruel and unusual”.

To maintain a prison, inmates and everything that comes with the prison package is rather expensive. But, to take a life is much expensive compared to maintaining a prison. Putting individuals on Death Row, takes more time to process meaning more money is being spent, and when they’re finally sentenced to death, the items needed also cost a great amount of money. This money, which is mainly...