Multiple jurisdictions in the United States have death penalty statutes on their books. The stated purpose, of the death penalty, is the administration of justice. However, in the United States the death penalty is so divorced from any semblance of justice it has effectively become forced euthanasia.
There is a General Principle that states, that human beings’ have an “inherent dignity,” and therefore, they have a right not be deprived of their life. The state in some instances can legally deprive a human being of life, pursuant to either, their monopoly on the “legitimate use violence,” or through their “police powers.” This paper focuses on the latter rather then the former.
When the state takes a life pursuant to, …show more content…
Both are based on the principal that some people lack the inherent dignity others have, and therefore, lack the same right to life others have. The difference between the two prongs appears clear on paper. Both are a deprivation of life, pursuant to the state’s police powers, the former prong, however, is a judicial killing or execution, at no point does the condemned lack an “inherent dignity,” under the latter prong, the deprivation of life is conducted precisely because the condemned lacked the same “inherent dignity.” While these differences are clear on paper, as practiced in the United States, however, the lines between the two prongs have merged together. In The United States the death penalty as practiced is so divorced from any semblance of justice, it has effectively become forced …show more content…
Section one will examine “State Sanctioned Homicide,” in Nazi Germany. It will be broken up into three subsections. Subsection one will examine, State Sanctioned Homicide under prong one. Subjection two will examine, the two ways the State Sanctioned Homicide, was effectuated, pursuant to prong two. Subsection three will examine the methods used to effectuate death.
Section two will examine, State Sanctioned Homicide in the United States will examine State Sanctioned Homicide under prong one. It will be broken up into three subsections. Subsection one It will discuss the death penalty as a deterrence and as retribution. Subsection two will examine the constitutionality of the death penalty. Subsection three will discuss the concept of “humane” execution.
Section three will Section two will examine, State Sanctioned Homicide in the United States will examine State Sanctioned Homicide under prong two. It will examine how in the United states the death penalty is so divorced from any semblance of justice it has effectively become forced euthanasia. It will bee split into subsections.
Subsection one discuss some of the other common reason, people either favor or disfavor the death penalty. It will examine how they actually strip the condemned of any “inherent