It is the ACLU’s position (click here) that all five current methods of execution
violate the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment,
which prohibits the imposition of gratuitous pain. The most commonly
used method of lethal injection, now the primary method of execution,
violates that prohibition by using a sequence of drugs that creates an
unnecessary risk of excruciating pain. This unconstitutional practice
has been facilitated by the secrecy surrounding the development and
implementation of lethal injection protocols in most states.
The Eighth Amendments reads:
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
That is it. That is all it says. It doesn't state there can be a death penalty. Someone decided along the way the death penalty was an option the country needed. The excuse is "...as a deterrent."
The Founding Fathers never envisioned the need for the death penalty, otherwise, I am confident they would have spelled out exactly what that looks like.
Here is a discussion (click here).
The Eighth Amendments reads:
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
That is it. That is all it says. It doesn't state there can be a death penalty. Someone decided along the way the death penalty was an option the country needed. The excuse is "...as a deterrent."
The Founding Fathers never envisioned the need for the death penalty, otherwise, I am confident they would have spelled out exactly what that looks like.
Here is a discussion (click here).
