8th grade Amendment debates

what about equality does that not matter anymore .. the definition is

“the state or quality of being equal; correspondence in quantity,degree, value, rank, or ability: “

How come people have the right to kill someone if “everyone is equal” you're saying just because they made a mistake their life should come to an end there is no sanity in that.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/equality

Some young criminals are getting the death penalty which is so sad.. young people are confused and don't know what they're doing this is not acceptable for someone so young to be charged with such a cruel punishment.

The youngest person to be charged with death penalty was George Stinney Jr. He was just 14 when he got charged with the death penalty.

I have to say his crime, killing two women was a bit much but that doesn't mean this little boy should die for his mistake.

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/federal-death-penalty

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Some of these criminals have families like Dzhokhar Tsarnaev he has three siblings and two parents well and worried about him..

http://www.biography.com/people/dzhokhar-tsarnaev-21196765#synopsis

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's father said “the family will fight the death sentence he was given yesterday for the Boston Marathon bombings 'until the end'.”

Some criminals have families that are normal and care about them it's not fair for them to suffer the pain of watching their loved ones die.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3084491/Boston-Marathon-bomber-Dzhokhar-Tsarnaev-s-family-plans-appeal-death-sentence.html

But the thing is you are..

Here is a scenario that could easily be a reality. A man kills another man on the street. If the jury decides to give the criminal a death penalty then you could basically say the jury is killing the murder. How is it justice!? A jury can call the criminal a murderer but their one too.

Don't think for a second that these death penalties are rare and only happen in america .. some of these death penalties are happening right next to us!

for example in Abu Dhabi a twenty five year old man was just charged with death penalty just a few months ago..(january 5, 2015)

http://gulfnews.com/news/uae/crime/road-rage-murder-death-penalty-upheld-by-abu-dhabi-court-1.1436626

Thats not what Im saying, dont twist my words! They should get a punishment Im not saying to let them go, Im saying give the criminal a reasonable punishment.

Sanity. How could you kill someone, this isn't a cruel and unusual punishment this is straight on death! The definition of sanity is “the state of being sane; soundness of mind.”

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sanity?s=t

Many people have been charged with the death penalty.. how could we do this. By we I mean humans, we are killing our own kind sure they have killed maybe 1 or thousands people but that does not take away the fact that we are killing them, lots of them. Lots of people who have families too! All I have to say or rather ask is where is your sanity?

You wanna talk about humans fine..

You are human, I am human and believe it or not criminals are human too. Its part of life to make mistakes, some people make bigger mistakes than others and it's not fair that people like you and me should pay such a big price for mistakes that everyone makes.

Troy Davis was convicted of murdering a Georgia police officer in 1991. One simple mistake had led to his life coming to an end as 20 years later he was executed.

http://www.amnestyusa.org/our-work/campaigns/abolish-the-death-penalty/priority-death-penalty-cases

Today we will be discussing how the death penalty should not be allowed under the 8th amendment. The opposing team will tell all of you how the accused deserve to be sentenced to the death penalty and they will try to show you the brutal side of their crimes to convince you that they are right.. but think. If you sentence someone to death then you are the murder. Everyone deserved a second chance and if you imprison someone with a patrol option then you are teaching the person a lesson. Maybe in a scenario the murder is someone who was being mentally harassed and decided to end their misery by murdering the person who was abusing them. In a way this is self defense. We are humans, not masters of being human. No one should judge another unless fully experienced and allowed by the law. Sending the accused murderer to prison or a psych ward is a place for them to learn right from wrong. The death penalty is violating the 8th amendment by cruel and unusual punishment. The methods of death penalty over the 20-21st century there has been hanging, gas chambers, firing squad, lethal injection and others. Those are all cruel and unusual punishments in my opinion. If it violates the 8th amendment, why not remove the death penalty as a whole and find new ways to improve humanity instead of killing.

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