Abolishing The Death Penalty

We often think of the death penalty as a cruel and unusual way to punish someone that has committed a cruel and unusual crime. Although this may be true, when has it gone too far ? When is it possibly okay to kill someone for doing something so wrong?
The death penalty has not been a knew modern way to punish people, it started in the Eighteenth century B.C.. There are however codes as to what a person could be killed for in this time. In the 10th century A.D. however hanging was the most common form. Britain was the main push or influencer on America when it comes to using the death penalty, when the Europeans arrived in in America they brought the practice of the capital punishment. The first recorded execution recorded in America was a
Many states began not to use public exactions and would start doing them in correctional facilities. The first to start executing in correctional facilities was Pennsylvania. Michigan was the first state out of many to abolish the death penalty. Many states began to follow behind Michigan, such as Rhode Island and Wisconsin. After the Civil War, the electric chair was introduced and New York was the first state to build an electric chair. Other states began to use the same method that had not outlawed the penalty ("Part I: History of the Death Penalty").
In the twentieth century began with trying to find a more humane way of killing inmates. Nevada found lethal gas more humane. There were more exactions in 1930's than any other decade recorded it was an average of 167 per year ("Part I: History of the Death Penalty"). Before the 1960's, the fifth, eighth, and fourteenth amendments were viewed as promoting the penalty. The view began to swiftly changed and was viewed as " cruel and unusual.
The family desperately wanted him to pay this awful crime and wanted him to face the death penalty but was scared he would get out of it. That is just what happened, Daniel took a plea bargin. He was sentenced 20 years for the murder of Kimberly and faced an extra 12 years for almost killing an unborn child([e-mail], n.d.). The child now faces 24 hour around the clock car, she can not do anything on her own not even breath she has an oxygen tank. I asked a close friend of Kimberly's, " Do you believe he should have faced the death penalty ? " her response was " Hell yes, he did not have the guts to look her in her face and shot her he waited till she turned around. How could he try to kill his unborn child?" (A. L.