Essay/Term paper: Is the death penalty constitutional

Essay, term paper, research paper:  Sociology Essays

Tim Ream

DEATH PENALTY
CONSTITUTIONALITY


MY NAME IS TIM REAM AND I"M DEBATING FOR THE

CONSTITUTIONALITY OF THE DEATH PENALTY.

1. THE CASE OF LEROY KEITH, A MURDERER ON DEATH ROW BUT

SOME HOW GOT OUT ON PAROLE, AND ENDED UP IN WARREN, OHIO.

THERE HE WALKED UP TO A MAN NAMED FREDERICK GRIEST AS HE

WAS SITTING BEHIND THE WHEEL OF HIS CAR AND SHOT HIM DEAD.

HE WAS SENTENCED TO DEATH AGAIN. HE APPEALED AND A

RETRIAL WAS HELD AND RESULTED IN LIFE IMPRISONMENT. ON

MARCH 7, 1956, HE WAS PAROLED AGAIN AND GIVEN A

GOVERNMENT-MANDATED JOB IN YOUNGSTOWN,OHIO. IT LASTED

THREE DAYS BEFORE HE DISAPPEARED. ON NOVEMBER 21, 1956, HE

TURNED UP ON NORTH HOWARD STREET IN AKRON, OHIO,WHERE

HE WALKED UP TO A PARKED CAR AND SHOT THE DRIVER, COBURN

VON GUNTEN, DEAD. HE THEN DUMPED THE BODY ON THE STREET

WHEN THE POLICE INTERVENED. THEY GOT INTO A GUN FIGHT




WITH KEITH WHICH ENDED WITH TWO MORE PEOPLE DEAD. HE

THEN WENT TO NEW YORK WHERE HE JOINED UP WITH TWO OTHER

PEOPLE FOR THE PURPOSE OF ROBBING A TAXI. THE TAXI PICKED

THEM UP AND WHEN THE DRIVER REALIZED HE WAS BEING

ROBBED HE PURPOSELY RAN INTO A COP CAR. THEY JUMPED OUT

OF THE CAR, BUT BEFORE HE GOT OUT LEROY SHOT THE DRIVER.

HE WAS FINALLY CAUGHT AND EXECUTED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

SO HERE WAS JUST ONE INSTANCE WERE THE DEATH PENALTY IS

CONSTITUTIONAL.

IN ORDER FOR THE DEATH PENALTY TO BE UNCONSTITUIONAL IT

HAS TO BE CRUEL AND OR UNUSUAL.

A. IT IS CONSTITUTIONAL

1. TO BE UNCONSTITUTIONAL IT HAS TO BE CRUEL AND OR

UNUSUAL WHICH IT IS NOT BECAUSE FOR IT TO BE CRUEL IT HAS TO

EXCEED THE CRIME. IF WE EXECUTED PEOPLE FOR JAYWALKING OR

PICK-POCKETING THAT IS CRUEL, AND IT ISN"T UNUSUAL BECAUSE

IT HAS BEEN AROUND SINCE FIRST RECORDED TIME.


THE FIFTH AMENDMENT STATES THAT "NO PERSON SHALL BE HELD

TO ANSWER FOR A CAPITAL, OR OTHERWISE INFAMOUS CRIME,

UNLESS ON A PRESENTMENT OR INDICMENT OF A GRAND JURY,

IN CASES ARISING IN THE LAND OR NAVAL FORCES, OR IN THE

MILITIA, WHEN IN ACTUAL SERVICE IN TIME OF WAR OR PUBLIC

DANGER; NOR SHALL ANY PERSON BE SUBJECT FOR THE SAME

OFFENSE TO BE TWICE PUT IN JEOPARDY OF LIFE; NOR SHALL BE

COMPELLED IN ANY CRIMINAL CASE TO BE WITNESS AGAINST

HIMSELF, NOR BE DEPRIVED OF LIFE, LIBERTY, OR PROPERTY,

WITHOUT DUE PROCESS OF LAW; NOR SHALL PRIVATE PROPERTY

BE TAKEN FOR PUBLIC USE, WITHOUT JUST COMPENSATION."

NOTE "...A CAPITAL OR OTHERWISE INFAMOUS

CRIME..." "... NOR BE DEPRIVED OF LIFE ... WITHOUT

DUE PROCESS OF LAW..."

THE DEATH PENALTY UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION BY PROTECTING

THE PUBLIC AND RIDDING THE COUNTRY OF OFFENDERS WITH

"DUE PROCESS OF LAW."