Constitutionality of the Death Penalty

September 9, 1993, a 17 - year - old boy Christopher Simmons and several of his friends gathered to discuss and develop plans for the murder of robbery and entertainment. The plans of Simmons are not complicated. Find someone to steal, kidnap the victim, tie the victim to the tree, or keep it away from the bridge. Simons and his accomplices walked a bit through cracked windows and then walked into the bedroom of Mrs. Crook. Two teenagers tried to lift a woman and put her behind the van.

However, before digging down the debate about the constitutionality of the death penalty, it is first necessary to understand the historical sustainability of the death penalty in the United States. In 1608, the first record of the American colony was George Kendall, which was executed by a shooting party in Virginia state as a spy on behalf of the Spaniard. Since then, historians recorded about 20,000 people executed in the territory of the United States. Execution is a nearly ubiquitous form of punishment in the practice of the concept of this country (usually can not be quoted today as well), but this ubiquitous form of justice has become dramatic over the past 50 years I will. change. By 1970, 21 countries abolished the death penalty for all crimes except war crimes and riots. Since then, this number has soared to 103, and a few countries have been able to continue using the death penalty.

The constitutionality of the death penalty has been repeated iteratively, but the establishment of new rights through American history shows that the permanence of the death penalty is far from guarantee. The current situation is that the implicit racial prejudice in the judgment process and arbitrary enforcement of the death penalty will weaken the state's rights to manage this form of punishment. These procedural flaws require the abolition of capital punishment because it violated Fifth and Fourteenth Revisions.