Values of a human life are all the same. We all deserve to live and deserve to keep our dignity. Cruel and unusual punishment is something that no human should have to go through in their life. That is a main reason why the law prohibits it against criminals and wrongdoers. For some reason, however, the legal system is allowing people to be put to the chair. If cruel and unusual punishment isn't allowed then why should death be allowed? That is the cruelest thing there is.
In the episode of Black Mirror, White Bear, there is a woman who is tortured every day for the rest of her life for a wrong action that she made in her life. Victoria, the main character is put in a neighborhood that she cannot recognize. Without her knowledge, the neighborhood is like a zoo for the onlookers, and she is the viscous animal they all came to see. Every morning, she awakens with no memory with the help of future technology.
This is the same world we live in but just in the future. But in the future, could you see us paying money to see a woman be tortured just for the wrong doings she has done. I believe we could. And to go even farther, it might even be going on today. A woman's dignity is being humiliated just for a crime she has made while the legal system is making big money off of it.
I am a strong believer in imprisonment. Although, it is not the way anyone should live, people commit crimes and need to be put away. While in prison, they still have time to make a new case to get less years or even prove that they are not guilty. With that being said, I do not believe in the death penalty. Everyone deserves to live, although prison is terrible, at least they are alive. Because of the actions criminals make, they deserve to be put away to prison and have to be separated from society.
There is a fine line between what is deserved and what is cruel and unusual punishment. The torture that Victoria has to suffer is very cruel and very unusual. Being locked out of society is not cruel or unusual punishment, it's what they deserve. If a man had just murdered a person, I don't care how much that man has changed, I do not want that man in my neighborhood. I know a lot of people would say that about a murderer but they would come to say "What about a low major crime and if they changed then?" Any crime you could name, I would not want them near me or my family.
3 comments:
I completely agree with your question about why the death penalty is allowed if cruel and unusual punishment is not allowed. I think that death is the cruelest punishment and that it is unfair to take away another person's right to life. I don't think it is fair to be able to punish a killer with the death penalty because it is killing also, just by another method.
I think the death penalty is less cruel and unusual then constantly torturing a person everyday for years. Death is only a matter of seconds while torture is as long as they make it last and in the end they still kill them.
I disagree on your view of the death penalty. I feel that the crime a person did to be put on death row is cruel and unusual in itself and that executing the person would be more merciful than life in prison. Also, if you factor in a 20 year old who commits capital murder with a life expectancy of at least 75 years, you are looking at incarcerating that individual for 55 years with no chance of parole. Would that not be cruel and unusual to live out the rest of your life in a cage?
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