It's an assault onthe human dignity and a violation of human rights. Capital Punishment should protect the innocent and serve justice. People question ifit even does this anymore. There is plenty of evidence that it does exactly the opposite, and plenty that says it does not do any good at all.The danger of executing innocent people should make anyone think twice about speeding up. the process; indeed, a disturbing number of theinnocent people sit on death row for more then four years.Only about 0.02% of homicide perpetrators get sentenced to death. Canada has a murder rates less then one third as great as Americans.Estimates of the cost of Capital Punishment are huge. It is around 400,000 to 900,000 a year. There is no real way to replace one lifewith the death on another. Yet when Capital Punishment is the choice of the courts, that is what has to be decided.Each year there are about 250 people are added to death row and 35 are executed. The death penalty is the harshest form of punishment enforcedin the US today. Lethal injection is the most common form used today.From 1972 to 1977 capital punishment was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.It was said that it the Death penalty was cruel andunusual under the eighth amendment. I myself feel that the death penalty is wrong morally because it is the cruel and inhumane taking a human life.However after a supreme court decision in 1977 `Gregg v. Georgia', which stated Capital punishment did not violate the Eighth Amendment,executions were once started again under the states supervision."Electrocution had occasion caused extensive burns and needed more than one application of electric current to kill the condemned" - AmnestyCapital Punishment is immoral in principle, and unfair. It assures the execution of some innocent people. As a remedyfor crime, it has no purpose and no effect.Both Greeks and the Romans invoked the death penalty for a wide variety of offenses. ...
