The United States' Execution System

The death penalty was used as a penalty for various crimes as early as the 18th century BC. In the Babylonian Code of King Babylonian, the capital punishment is summarized on 25 different crimes. These executions took place in the form of crucifixion, drowning, striking death, burning and stabbing ("history of death"). In a more ethical and humanitarian country, the United States, it received a more rational form of punishment. Nevertheless, this decision still remains against the worst forms of crime killings.

The death penalty is the legal judgment of 32 states and the federal citizen and military law system. Since the death penalty resumed in 1976, the actual execution of the death penalty in the United States is rare, and 34 states are executing the death penalty. Although the implementation method varies, the most common method since 1976 is the application of the death penalty. In 2014, a total of 35 people were executed and 3,002 people were sentenced to death. If homicide is committed in the country, the state has jurisdiction, and likewise, if the crime occurs in the District of Columbia, the DC High Court (equivalent to the state court of the district) holds jurisdiction, but in some cases The US government is involved. The federal court may have exclusive jurisdiction in the case of property or personnel affairs.

On July 16, 2014, federal court judge Cormac J. Carney in the United States District Court ruled that California's death penalty is unconstitutional as it is arbitrary and plagued by delays. Since 2006, the country has not executed prisoners. The judge violated the eighth amendment to ban the cruel and unusual punishment of the current system and declared in February 2015 that "I can put a life on an irrational jury or legislature." The court's judge Shellyanne Chang ruled that the state law forced the disciplinary department to develop a method of treating a prisoner by a fatal injection. In the second half of that year, a new agreement was given to provide a way to implement a single agent to comply with this decision.

Criticism of the application of the death penalty in the United States Criticism of the application of the death penalty in the United States focuses on a wide range of features: implementation of juveniles, implementation of mental retardation, fatal injection procedures, so-called death penalty phenomenon, so-called race Discrimination, execution of innocent people and the prospects and qualities of representatives of defendant capital. As mentioned earlier, in the past four years the Supreme Court banned the execution of the first two people - "minors and mentally disabled people". Some are currently suing lawsuits, including implementation of psychiatric and lethal injection protocols, including federal policy. In the next section we will discuss the rest of the matter.