Death Penalty

The death penalty is a very long well thought out plan that has many aspects that are made to protect the accused. In the pretrial the court makes sure that the jury is a fair well educated jury. The reason for the long process of determining the jury is because if the jury had a bias member or someone that had already pre-determined their decision someone’s life will be taken away. Another way the accused can get away with surviving is pleading insanity or a mental illness. If you were to kill someone and diagnosed with mental retardation the court would protect you from the death penalty. There are many ways the court will help provide the accused with a fair trial. I think that this long methodical plan is a very accurate way of protecting the rights of the accused. We could be much stricter than we already are, but these rights provide the wrong with some fair protection. There are five ways of using the death penalty they are hanging, firing squad, lethal injection, gas chamber and electrocution and in my eyes I find all of these ways more than fair. If you take someone’s life why your life shouldn’t be taken? I understand that in some cases there are some acceptations, but that’s up to the jury to decide. Also most of the killings are very brutal and gruesome the way that these criminals are put to death are quick and painless, so in my eyes they are having somewhat of a luxury. None of these are considered cruel and unusual punishment in my mind, but I can see how people can argue it. I think they get what they deserve. The state of Illinois and some surrounding states don't have the death penalty. Surprisingly California has the most amounts of inmates with 724. I was also surprised to hear that they had the most women with 19 inmates. There are by far more male inmates in the United States. In North Carolina in 2002, a new law allowed life without parole and because of this death sentences dropped by over 50% following the law.