Amendment Eight
The first part of amendment eight
states that the judge cannot assign the accused person excessive amounts of
bail; bail is used to make sure that the accused makes it to trial, if they
don’t they lose that money. The reason for this is to assure that the judge
does not base the amount of bail based on the crime committed (if the crime was
worse they would want to make the bail larger or excessive). The second part of
the amendment states that nothing cruel or unusual in terms of punishing the
accused shall be inflicted. This is still pretty up in the air with the death
penalty and what exactly is considered cruel or unusual.
My
own thoughts regarding the last part of the amendment is that I am pretty
against the death penalty. Yes, there can be certain pros to it, but all in all
no human should be killed, that in a sense cancels out us convicting THEM for
killing if we are just going to do the same thing. There are horrible crimes
committed and at times I would agree with the death penalty, but all in all I
am against it. I think it is a waste of money as it is very expensive to be
carried out.
This video shows that getting rid of the death penalty will
be an overall positive. It saves money, gives more justice, and allows the
judges to focus on other more important cases.
I like this video a lot… It shows the
real side of these inmates and how they are humans just like us. Some people
are innocent and are on death row. I do feel sympathy for these people,
especially the ones innocent. It shows how much more costly it is to keep the
death penalty (2 million dollars for tax payers for each inmate) rather than to
just sentence them to life in prison. There are a lot of injustices that can go
on with the death penalty and it is no joke, this is life and death and it
shouldn’t be taken lightly.
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