Megan Michaux
Capital Punishment
As part of a democracy, Americans accept the rights of the county, state and
individual. Social order can only exist when people give up the responsibilities of law
enforcement to the government. All fifty states have the right to choose whether or not to
utilize capital punishment. It is legal in thirty-seven of those states. (www) I believe
capital punishment does not violate the Eighth Amendment because it serves as both a
deterrent and retributive purpose. Moral justice can be served through the execution of
the convicted and there are humane ways in which the government can execute.
When the Constitution was drafted, capital punishment was practiced widely in
this country, yet it was not specified as wrong or as cruel and unusual. Many of the
framers and philosophers of the Constitution supported capital punishment. ( Locke)
Citizens under a social contract agree not to kill only because others also......

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