Death Penalty4

Death Penalty I feel that the Death Penalty is wrong, and I dont see how anyone could justify killing somebody with killing somebody. I think our socity is just using this for a "band-aid" for the real problems of our socity, we need to get back to our roots and stop the problems before they start. Nobody knows the date and the hour in which they will die, but in many states now you know …

…suffer more during their executions than is anticipated or planned. See, for example, the Time Magazine account (May 23, 1994) of the execution of John Wayne Gacy, "A Twist Before Dying" by David Seideman. What is the moral significance of cases such as these? Is it a factor in deciding whether the death penalty should be prmitted? Wht counts as "cruel and unusual" punishment? Although there are obviously degrees of cruelty, is the death penalty inherently cruel?