What Is The Death Penalty Wrong

The death penalty has remained a point of contention throughout history. Views on the death penalty have ranged from supporting to non supporting for many years. The death penalty arrived in America with the colonists, “The first recorded execution in the new colonies was that of Captain George Kendall in the Jamestown colony of Virginia in 1608” ( Part I: History of the Death Penalty). America then reached an all time high in death penalty executions in the 1930’s. Present day America has called for a revaluation of the necessity of the death penalty; President Obama ordered the Attorney General to review the application of the death penalty after a botched execution on an inmate in Oklahoma. Most American citizens agree that the death penalty
The corruptness is proven in the Affluenza Teen case, where teenager Ethan Couch killed several while drunk driving. The attorneys that represented Couch said he had not known his actions were wrong due to his privileged upbringing. Ethan Couch received probation for killing multiple people while under the influence. Also, almost all the inmates executed on death row were too poor to afford their own attorney. The criminal justice system is not always correct; in several instances people have been wrongly convicted and later executed. Carlos Deluna was convicted of stabbing a woman to death, and he was executed in 1989 despite no evidence that he actually committed the crime. The death penalty is also unconstitutional because the eighth amendment bans cruel and unusual punishments. Many instances have proven the death penalty cruel. In Ohio, inmate Romell Broom was convicted for rape. Romell’s execution was scheduled in 2009 but didn’t work as planned. The execution team tried to execute Romell through lethal injection for two hours.”Broom said he was stuck with needles 18 times – causing such intense pain that he cried and screamed” After his painful, drawn out attempted execution they decided to reschedule his execution. In Oklahoma inmate Clayton Lockett suffered from a botched execution, the execution team had to
The Death Penalty is not a fair punishment, especially when there has been several cases like, the Affluenza Teen prove the criminal justice system corrupt and unfair. The Death Penalty also falters with consistency of sentencing. How is it fair that one can commit a crime in Texas and receive the death penalty but one who commits that same crime in Minnesota cannot get the Death Penalty because the state doesn’t offer