why do we still have cruel and unusual punishments?

by KY

It is our eighth amendment, no cruel and unusual punishment. Many people suffer pain up to ten hours as a method of torture, condoned by our own nation. This isn't the way people should be treated, no matter how bad their crime. Everybody is human and not animals.

There have alwasy been plenty of ways that our own government uses to torture people that were cruel and plenty were unusual. In the past, they made victims pay the price they should have paid for the crime they committed. Staying in prison could have been better than what they have to go through. It was like if they were messing around with people and watching them die very slowly, making them leave their family members behind, telling them that we only believe in forgiveness in theory, but not in practice. Yet some people still think the methods they used were not so bad.

In the 1800's hanging was also another way to make a prisoner pay the price for what he or she did in the United States. It depended on the victim's weight or their size on how they will die.They would first blind fold the prisoner so that they can see anything.The excecutionar would tie their hands and legs and put a noose around their neck,right behind their left ear. Then they are let go and fall into a strap door.The victim should fall and crack their neck,but that does always happen.If a person was too short they wouldn't reach the ground so they are still hanging and being chocked to death.If someone was to fat the rope wouldn't be strong for that person and they would just fall. Sometimes their eyes pop out and the body defecates. This method is still used in Washington,and in Delaware.

In 1924 the gas chamber became another way to execute people. They tie they person up so that they won't go anywhere.Everybody leaves the chamber alone and the they close it very good so that the gas won't come out.That is when everybody is ready and they let out the gas for the person to die. While gas is already released the person begins to suffer.They struggle for their life,but that is helpless. Their eyes pop out. Weird things just happen on their own, things that they can't be control at all and it is very horrible. Their skin turns purple and out of nowhere,they begin to drool. These are the signs they give that they are experiencing pain and there is nothing they can do about it.They have a doctor outside to tell if the person is dead already.Finally they suck out the gas and wait for a next victim.This is a really sad thing that some one can do to another person. A sad way to die very slowly and in an harsh way.

In 1977 the first state to have Lethal Injection for execution was in Oklahoma.When a person does something bad they will stick two injection inside their vein.Usually it would be the vein from their arm.The victim falls to sleep with the injection.It paralyzes their in tire muscle in the body. That stops the victim from breathing. That leads to the heart,it just stops and the person is now dead right before their eyes. Yet they still have a doctor to determine if the person is completely dead. Compared to other two, this does not seem to be cruel or unusual.

These are cruel punishment and some of them were unusual. Justice isn't perfect and as a result, many people have been innocently tortured. Why do we still use forms like the electric chair and the gas chamber, knowing that we have something like lethal injection? Why hasn't the Supreme Court declared it to be unconstitutional?

This was torture for them, because all they suffered was pain until death came to break them away. They made their victims die slowly until they are completely dead. They feel all the pain that is going on with their body.The sad part is that people just stand there and watch the person die in pain. Sadly nobody thinks. So, the cycle continues.