While capital punishment has been one of the most feared things in our time, it is still being questioned if it's unconstitutional. The death penalty is being enforced in more than 100 countries. And throughout the history, the death penalty is usually a result of crimes of either rape or murder. Although we carry out the punishment in a better manner than other countries, its safe to say that the American public's opinion toward the issue is divided. Some people believe that the procedure is cruel and unusual punishment, and not a deterrence. They have also been cases where many innocent people were put to death. Another argument that rises with capital punishment is the discrimination with black males. Studies show that about a 90% of males that are sentenced to death row are black. However, anyone who knows about law or the criminal justice system and its inner workings, could put up a very strong argument that capital punishment is not doing what it should be doing in reference to the deterrence point of view.
             There has been substantial evidence to show that courts have been impulsive, racially biased, and unfair in the way in which they have sentence some people to prison while others to death. In the 1930 era, African American only made up about a 12% of the United States population but yet in that time they made up a 51% of the people executed. One can also argue that minorities commit the crimes that fit the death penalty more often than whites, but studies show that that is not the case either. What studies have shown is that a jury is more likely to impose the death penalty on blacks than on whites accused of the same offense. That brings up a very strong argument; big majorities of the people on death row come from a low-income background that are not very well educated. Classifying these people as the lower class. And the majority of people that make up the lower class are minorities. That Simply states...