should death penitently stay

Although the judicial system is designed with several strategies to promote fairness (such as a panel of jurors who are interviewed beforehand and cut off from the rest of the world to ensure impartiality), it is not perfect. If you look at the statistics I presented, you will see that the death penalty is racist. Not every murderer is given the death penalty, right? Some are just given jail sentences. Black murderers are three times as likely to be given the death penalty when compared to white murderers for similar cases according DeathPenaltyInfo.org. Let's say a black person and a white person both commit separate murders. The murders are similar, which means that they happened under similar conditions with similar outcomes. The black person is three times as likely to be executed compared to the white person. Let me explain my second statistic a little better as well. Let's say a someone named Dylan kills a white person, someone named Jordan kills a black guy, and someone named Drew kills a Latino person. (I intentionally made all the example names gender-neutral by the way) In this scenario Dylan is three times as likely to go to jail as Jordan, JUST because Dylan killed a white guy and Jordan killed a black. Dylan is FOUR times as likely to go to jail as Drew, JUST because Dylan killed a Latino. As I said before, the judicial system tries to be impartial as possible, but it can't always do that. The job of choosing whether someone lives or dies is given to a judge, and judges are human beings. Even though judges and jurors try to be fair to all races and nationalities, they will always have an involuntary bias, no matter how hard they try to be fair. You stated that the Fifth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution provide for the death penalty. This is actually not true at all. The Fifth Amendment says "No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except 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 or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a 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." The Fifth Amendment is basically saying that: (a) you cannot be jailed for a crime unless the police actually charge you and (b) the judicial system cannot convict you of a crime unless they follow the process outlined in the Constitution and (c) a person cannot be charged for the same crime twice. For instance, you can be tried for a murder of one person, and then later tried for the murder of a different person, but you cannot be tried for the murder of one person and then later tried for the murder of that same person. The rest of the Fifth Amendment says that the government cannot take your stuff without paying you what that item is worth. The Eighth Amendment says "Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted." This means that if someone is convicted of a crime, three things MUST NOT happen: -An excessive bail (or price to get someone out of jail) cannot be required -An excessive fine cannot be imposed -The criminal cannot be given a cruel or unusual punishment Now you might point at that third part and say "Now hold on. The death is not cruel because the person put to execution is a really bad person and they deserve to die" but first of all it is cruel to decide that someone needs to die. Secondly, that amendment does not specifically allow the death penalty. The Fourteenth Amendment says "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." This Amendment says that everyone who is born in the US or goes through the immigration process is a citizen of the US. The Amendment says that if someone is a citizen of the US, they have to follow the laws of the US and follow the orders of the government. Then it says that the states cannot make laws that violate the rights of American citizens unless the right process is followed. The last thing this Amendment says is that every person has to be given the same treatment under the law (which, as I said earlier, is what the government tries to do, but they don't do it very well at all.) The three Amendments that you mentioned do not say anything about the death penalty. In fact, no part of the Constitution talks about the death penalty. And by the way, yes I do believe that child rapists and criminals of all kinds should only be given a jail sentence, unless they are extremely dangerous terrorists. You said that putting a murderer in prison does not provide the family involved with the relief they need. If someone killed one of my family members, I would not feel better if the killer was executed. In fact, if I am murdered, I legitimately prefer for the murderer to be given a life sentence. But I haven't had a family member killed, so I don't know what it feels like. So I found some real life stories about families and how they felt about the death penalty being given to the person who murdered a loved of theirs. Read one of these stories below. All of these stories come from https://deathpenaltyinfo.org..., and all the stories have links to articles about the family from news outlets. In 2014, a man named Jeff Ferguson was executed for the murder of Kelli Hall. Kelli's father, Jim, originally believed that Jeff Ferguson was executed, it would bring closure to the family. In fact, he told reporters "Thank God, it's over." But a few months later, the family saw a documentary about how Ferguson interacted with those at his prison. They "were able to forgive him then and there." The father of the family told The Chicago Tribune that "I'm convinced significant healing would have occurred for us all if our family had engaged in a frank conversation with him at the prison. I wish I had had the chance -- consistent with my Christian beliefs -- to have told him in person that I forgave him for what he did to our innocent and precious daughter." I just realized that I'm about to run over my character limit, so I encourage everyone reading this right now to follow that link and read about it. You said that the death penalty deters crime because people don't want to die. That is a very logical argument, and I used to believe the very same thing until I read an article (https://deathpenaltyinfo.org...). In the article, Dr. Johnathan Groner, an associate professor, said "The psychological mind-set of a criminal is such that they are not able to consider consequences at the time of the crime. Most crimes are crimes of passion that are done in situations involving intense excitement or concern. People who commit these crimes are not in a normal state of mind -- they do not consider the consequences in a logical way ... The murder rate is most closely associated with the socioeconomic health of the country. The murder rate in the U.S. was highest during the Depression. Also, the majority of people on death row are from the most blighted parts of the U.S. They are very poor and very impoverished. A very high percentage have mental health problems. Access to health care and improving the socioeconomic health of our country's cities would reduce the murder rate more effectively than executions."