One case was decided and one case was argued on Wednesday. The Court let stand as constitutional the method of lethal injection used in Kentucky. The Court opinions were varied in the case however, not necessarily providing a lot of clarity in this area.
They also heard a case that goes to perhaps an even more controversial question: should the death penalty be applied to people convicted of crimes other than murder? Only murderers have received the death sentence in the last several decades, but the case before the court involves a particularly heinous rape of a child that did not result in death.
These involve 8th Amendment and due process issues. Read about them and let me know what you think.
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Seriously? I think raping a kid should result in death. Civil Rights include the the right to live and a right to privacy. Raping a child is like destroying their childhood. The child will remember it forever, it can lead to depression and make the child socially disabled. Not only that, if the victim was female, she might have to have an abortion or a baby. If she has an abortion, I think the rapist should even be charged with manslaughter or something because it was the rapist fault.
Kingsley C ~ TGS
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While the 8th Amendment protects convicted persons from cruel and unusual punishment, I don’t feel that it can be legitimately used to protect rapists; especially pedophiles, from the death penalty. I consider rape to be one of the most heinous crimes in our society and find impossible to understand how someone could commit it without facing the harshest punishment within the judicial system. However, I believe that as a society we must suppress our instinctual urge to extract immediate vengeance on those who commit these terrible acts, because we cannot advance ourselves if we continue to end the lives of our prisoners.
"Washington - Thirty years ago the US Supreme Court issued a landmark decision, declaring that sentencing someone to death for the crime of rape was cruel and unusual punishment." Well i would have to say that raping someone is cruel and an unusual punishment. I would say that I don't agree that someone who rapes someone should have the death penalty. I believe that killing someone for the wrong that they did. I believe that they should have to live with what they have done and live in jail for the rest of their lives. But I have a question, the states that are not going to go through with this death penalty agreement, don't you think that there will be more rapist in those states?
~Shelby Klein
Though the 8th amendment protects convicted persons from cruel and unusual punishment, but in the circumstance it should not apply. If a child is raped and the person who did it was only sentenced 10 or whatever amount of years in jail, eventually they will be released and will most likely do it again. This is why they should be able to use the death penalty in cases like this. People who are raped especially as a child will be traumatized for ever and them knowing the person who did that to them will only be in jail for a little time can emotionally ruin them. But yes, i think being able to use the death penalty in this situation is reasonable.
Maggie Caetano
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Well I think that the death sentence should not be used at all. Not that I don't care about the victoms of crimes I just think that everybodies rights should be protected even the acused and convicted.I also think that the 8th amendment could be applied here because if not cruel and unusual punishment what is the death sentence and should be applied in any circumstance, in it is waved under one circumstance then what happens when they wave your civil right (I don't think you would appreciate that). Though like Kingsley said a child being raped may be socially disabled, The victim is going to have to live with that even if the rapist is dead or alive. I think that life in prison would be more suitable. The victim has the natural rights to life, liberty, and property and all their Civil rights but nowhere in the constitution does it say if these rights are violated that the violater would be sentenced to death.
$Steven $ Davis$
P.S. (I run N.Y. Not you Ali)
i think that the death penalty coul be good in sertain situations...but i dont think that it should really be used at all.People should just be placed in prison for a long time. Even though the rape victim did a horable thing he will have to live a bad life in prison, the rest of his life.
Dana Stewart
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