The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land. No law, policy, or practice of the federal government or any state is legally valid if it conflicts with the Constitution. The Constitution is made up of a preamble, seven articles, and twenty-six amendments. Three of those amendments relate to the death penalty: the Fifth Amendment, the Eighth Amendment, and the Fourteenth Amendment. The Fifth Amendment states that a person who commits …showed first 75 words of 1650 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1650 total…and injury to its citizens will prove effective. In many records of past crimes there has been evidence that keeping a criminal imprisoned has actually shown equal or greater protective value to society than has capital punishment. And in some cases retaining the death penalty has lowered capital crime rates compared to the crime rates of jurisdictions that execute people more frequently . Therefore bringing up the question: Is capital punishment right or is it wrong.