As a pre-law major, I am always interested in writing essays that are involved in law or any legal issues. This semester, I am taking a class about the Constitutional Law and Civil Rights. ... Many people are not familiar how Constitutions are interpreted to justify our current laws. ... Based on this definition, many people argue that capital punishment violates the Eighth amendment, because its character consists cruel and unusual in practice and law. ... Kemp, some justice think that capital punishment is unjust because its unfair in race and geography. ...

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Presently, laws enforced upon society create controversy over if the rulings made are the morally correct decisions. ... While utilitarianism would view the consequence of killing the criminal as unjust because it makes the criminal suffer, I think a utilitarian would still think the death penalty is moral because the benefit it creates is greater than its consequences. ... In order to decide if the death penalty is just or unjust; utilitarianism has to question whether the death penalty is effective in preventing future crimes compared to life imprisonment. ...

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Capital punishment is defined as the legal infliction of death as a penalty for violating criminal law ("Capital"), but there is a great debate about how just it is. ... Many feel it is unjust, for three main reasons: it often punishes innocent people, convicts are often subjected to prejudice, and statistics show that the abolishment of the death penalty lowers the crime rate. ... Although the law guarantees everyone the right to an attorney, the quality of attorneys whom the court may appoint is often very poor. ...

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America's view on their justice system is very unclear, "we must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. ... The use of the death penalty dates all the way back 1700 B.C. when Iraq implemented The Code of Hammurabi, which was a legal document that contained the first known death penalty laws. ... The solution to avoid unjust death penalties is the jury. ...

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It is unjust that someone in one state receives the death penalty, but someone who commits an analogous crime in another state they are given a life sentence. ... (Bedau) So ever since the death penalty was re-instated the government has been spending millions upon millions of dollars on unnecessary murders when it could be spending the taxes on improving law enforcement and trying to lower the homicide rate. ... A recent study by Columbia University Law School found that two thirds of all capitol crime contained serious errors. ... Our laws should show a complete respect for life no matter if...

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Opponents of capital punishment who argue that this crime is improper or constitutional because it is disproportionately used against people of color and the poor mistake an argument against unjust applications of capital punishment for an argument against its use altogether. ... Why does the government deem murder against the law when, as a solution, they are executing those who commit murder, themselves? ... Why does the government deem murder against the law when, as a solution, they are executing those who commit murder, themselves? ... Very few countries still use capital punishment as a ...

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