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Exam (Kultur, samfunn og litt (death penalty, gun law, urfolk, Grades:ABC,…
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Economic concerns
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States have to hire physicians and other medical personnel to make sure the procedure occurs properly
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The drug used in the death penalty is not uniform. This is inefficient because it costs a lot more to use the two or three drug steps that some states have rather than the one drug steps others have.
It takes much longer and requires much more court costs when a criminal is considered for the death penalty. You must pay the judge and jurors which ca be very expensive.
Constitutional concerns
Violation of 5th Amendment: Death penalty takes away right of due process in that it does not allow the accused to be exonerated at any time after the crime
Violation of 8th Amendment: Death penalty is a cruel and unusual punishment in that it exemplifies humans as property that can just be "thrown away". Although the penalty has become more human over the years, it is still very cruel.
Violation of 8th Amendment: Criminals who receive the death penalty are given a paralytic before the potassium chloride, therefore we do not know if the lethal injection hurts the "patient". If it does, then it violates the 8th amendment.
Juries are never completely unbiased. Whether the bias is about gender, race, religion. It is possible that some people are given the death penalty easier and quicker than others of a different race, gender, or religion.
Violation of 8th Amendment: The death penalty is a complete denial human rights. In that,at that time, while the accused is still alive and a citizen, they are being killed against their will
Social concerns
Many think that people are sentenced to death based on the income they make or their income, but that is not true. It is based on the crime, not income.
the only way people receive the death penalty is if the judge feels that the man or woman committed a crime bad enough to receive it.
researchers study to see if racial bias is an issue when it comes to the country giving the death penalty out to citizens.
People think that the victim should have an opinion before deciding if he or she deserves the death penalty.
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Political concerns
Many believe that the death penalty is racial. the people who get the death penalty are anything but white.
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the people who decide the death penalty are law enforcers, prosecutors, judges, and jurors.
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