At the
moment of speaking on controversial topics that have caught my attention on The
United States, the first thing that one comes to my mind is the death penalty.
The United States they are considered to be pioneers in the incorporation of
social and cultural rights, are those who implement chairs opposite to the
acceptance (due to the multiple problems of discrimination). On the other hand,
this nation has been characterized for being a country advanced and developed
in different matters (technology, communications, economic models, between
others), nevertheless, they continue being primitive in what to sentences for
crimes it concerns. 
They are 32 the States that, according to the eighth amendment
to the Constitution of The United States, they apply the death sentence, or the
capital, against adults (mentally competent) that have committed aggravated
homicides. In the remaining States, these laws change, having been as Michigan,
where the death sentence has never been applied. To federal level, the death
penalty is legal, but they are the conditions those that decide to suppress, to
abolish it it or to apply it. Nevertheless, there exist a series of crimes of
federal character, where indepéndiente of the laws of the condition where they
are committed, the president of the republic is the one who decides if it
finishes with the life of the defendant or life imprisonment is granted to him.
Some of them are the perfidy to the mother land, the espionage, the war crimes,
the genocide, the use of chemical weapon that cause death, between others.
The
current methods that use the conditions and to federal level, are basically the
lethal injection, then (with very little I use) the electric chair or the
gallows (that already is not in use). In Texas, Oklahoma, Florida, Ohio and
Arizona assassins execute often. Texas has carried out the major number of
executions. With the previous thing, is it possible to deal to the United
States as a developed nation?, is it the State the manager of taking the life
from someone? that exists on our cultural penal one?. I wait for progress on
the part of the progressives.
I ask this question to Tamara in the presentation, but she don´t know the answer, how many states of United States still have the death penalty? is interesting to know that because U.S.A. supposed the country where human rights are respect, still there is this barbaric punishment and in Texas (symbol of conservatism and second state more popolous), at least, the capital punishment will be almost impossible to remove.
ResponderEliminarI think that this is horrible, I dont know how this can still happening, USA supposed to be a country legislate by intelligent people but they are making a big mistake with this. I hope that they can change this quickly because is inhuman.
ResponderEliminarAs my partners have said, is really hard to get how they can still doing this, i guess if there is a reason is that probably in some cases the thieves are just too evil to keep them in this world because they represent an extremely dangerous threat for the society. But anyways i still not agree with it.
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