Entry 10-Amendment 8

Source
Convicted Killer Gets Death Penalty in VA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hqEEyAPdtM
Constitution
Amendment 8-Cruel and Unusual Punishment
"no cruel or unusual punishments inflicted"
Connection
This video talks about how one man killed a guard that works at a hospital and a officer. After escaping form jail the man then killed those two people.  Because of the fact that he was shooting aroung a school the school had to be closed for a while to be sure no one else would get hurt. After one of th victim's wife had an outburt in the court room the judge sentenced the man to a dealth penalty.

This relates to the eighth amendment because the death penalty is now a faster process of punishment.  In the constitution it states that "cruel or unusual punishments should not be inflicted", which the death penalty is a cruel punishment.  Before 2010 the dealth penalty was the hanging of people and as time progressed it became a faster process of killing someone.  You are injecting the person with penthotal which is a lethal dose that is inside of your veins where they carry it all through out your body.  The person being sentenced to death can also feel the pain of the poisonous.  That is very cruel and unusual because you're putting someone through pain but also most people don't do that when killing someone.

The death penalty should be banished because not only does it take away someone's 8th amendment but it also takes away the 5th which is the right to have life.  If the man who was once inprisoned then that means that it is the police officers faulty and they need to do their jobs better.  The death penalty has changed over many years from people being hung which took them alonger time to die and now injections with needles.  The injection won't killl them instantly but it will affect them as the sit there waiting for it to kick in.  Also if the injection wasn't strong enough then the person has to be injected some more.  People should have a sentence to life in jail.