- The Death Penalty-
The death penalty has been a heated debate for years. The case of Troy Davis is thought to prove how unjust and cruel the death penalty really is. Troy Davis was executed in Georgia despite serious suspicions that he was wrongly accused of killing a police officer. Not only that, but it is strongly believed that the death penalty violates the constitutional ban against cruel and unusual punishment. And this penalty is defiantly unusual because the United States is the only western industrialized nation that engages in this punishment. Capital punishment is a denial of civil liberties and is therefore inconsistent with the fundamental values of our democratic system.
Info found at: http://www.aclu.org/capital-punishment
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