Constitutionality Of Capital Punishment

According to J Hopps Baker, a parole and probation commissioner “When you punish someone you pay for it later. There was a time when pickpockets were publicly hanged, but other pickpockets took advantage of the large crowds attracted to the executions to ply their trade” (McCall). The constitutionality of capital punishment is continuously questioned by the judicial system and being the controversial topic it is it has generated skepticism among public debates. My argument is solely based on the credibility of capital punishment in the United States it is arguable whether it has rejected the ideology of conscience. By illustrating that capital punishment can alter with an individual’s innocence, I provide a well-thought objection to the constitutional practice. In most regions in the modern world, capital punishment is depicted as a barbaric legacy from ancient history. The penalty of death is perceived as a regional practice and it can substantially vary from one region of the country to another. “U.S Executions from 1608-2002 confirmed that between 1775 and 1994, approximately thirteen thousand people were sentenced to death in the United States (11). The justices at the time considered various forms of execution and categorized the practices as constitutional or unconstitutional. In 1997, ninety-two percent of executions used this method and thirty-two states endorsed it (Shephard 207-08). There are five ratified types of execution in the United States: Electrocution, hanging, firing squads, lethal injection, and lethal gas. The federal government authorized the application of lethal injection; it was far by the most predominant method of execution. Statistically speaking, lethal injection was the most common method administered to 432 prisoners during 1977 and 1997. Most legal systems in ancient history sanctioned the practice of torture by facilitating it to act against those who opposed the law or intervened in any way. A frequent perspective that modern individuals shared is the belief that society was brutalized by persistent violence in the Medieval Era. The first officially instituted …show more content…
Christians that tolerated the harsh treatment by the government directed rebellious acts against the sovereign’s sacred power; therefore, Christians who repressed the law were executed at once. The death penalty was administered mostly by profane institutions; however, it was also exercised by numerous cultures that specified pagan rituals. Several micro cultures used the death penalty system in a righteous manner by abolishing those who disintegrated their social traditions and values. The circumstances occurring during the Middle and Medieval ages definitely were not equitable the Roman Catholics felt it was straight out injustice. Hanging was one of the concepts mandated by the English civil law James …show more content…
As Juliano concludes in his article “Why Capital Punishment is No Punishment at All” he supports his claim by providing evidence that the Court itself “consistently affirmed the constitutionality of death penalty” (207-08). The Court interpreted that in order to satisfy the value of an individual, death penalty “cannot be so totally without penological justification that it results in the gratuitous infliction of suffering” (183). Basically, even if death penalty is a legitimate form of punishment it lacks the justified used of it. Society supported death penalty no doubt about it; however, to what extent death penalty was justifiable is questionable? As evidence for this claim, the Court didn’t detect any complication with this practice until the realization that innocent convicts had been hanged at the cost of lawbreakers. The conviction stimulated the Court to set standards on the imposition of death