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Deterrence and Justice The death penalty is enforced by many countries, but our country does not use it enough, consistently, or in every state. The death penalty is promoted in probably the two most important literary writings that America has ever had or revered; The Constitution and the Bible. Hideous people are getting minimal punishment for hideous murders. We as a nation need to implement the death penalty to stop the reoccurring murders and deter the population from continuing to murder. The punishment needs to be increased and adopted in every state, a punishment that shows no mercy and deters criminals, the death penalty. Many individuals feel that the death penalty is unconstitutional because it violates the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution in regards to it being “cruel and unusual” punishment. The founders chose to use the word “and” instead of “or.” If the founders intentions were that punishment could not be cruel “or” unusual, would they not have said that? Instead they use the word “and.” This implies that for punishment to be unconstitutional, it must be “cruel and unusual” (Clark, 1999). Thus, any method of execution (firing squad, hanging, the guillotine, electric chair,