Why do you feel that the death penalty is "cruel or unusual punishment"?
Why do people claim that the death penalty is a cruel and unusual punishment?
Why is the death penalty so expensive to administer? What is the death penalty? Justice: What are the arguments against capital punishment (death penalty)? Is the death penalty appropriate or should it be banned? Justice: What are the arguments in favor of capital punishment (death penalty)? What are some crimes that result in the death penalty? Why is capital punishment called so? Why are death penalty executions so difficult when doctors can humanely euthanize animals or people? What is the benefit of the death penalty? Which crimes should require a death penalty? What are the arguments for and against the death penalty? Why capital punishment should be implemented? Why is there punishment for involuntary manslaughter? Doesn't it mean that the accused didn't want to commit murder? What makes the death penalty so expensive for the tax payers? Why is capital punishment so expensive? Are criminals wicked and deserve punishment? Should the use of punishment as a form of revenge be abolished, or does a victim have the right to the possibility of mental relief (however small) from the knowledge that their victimizer has been punished? What are some good arguments for outlawing the death penalty? Must capital punishment be banned? Why do some people claim that death by lethal injection is painful? Which is worse: life in prison or the death penalty? What is the legal thinking behind determining punishment for equal criminal actions that have dramatically different outcomes? Should the guilty people who get death penalty be used for biological experiments or drug tests instead of finishing them off? Should capital punishment be abolished? Why, or why not? Do mean people ever get punished? Should the UK re-introduce the death penalty? Why would some people prefer being arrested and receive a death sentence rather than being shot to death? What are some benefits of the death penalty? What is worse: acquitting a guilty murderer and setting them free, or sending an innocent person to jail on the same charge? Does the answer change if the guilty person then goes and kills someone else? What India abolished death penalty?