Since colonial times, approximately 13,000 people have been put to death using the death penalty? How do we know if any of these people were really guilty? The Bill of Rights describes our rights as Americans in the United States. According to the 8th Amendment, there should be no excessive bail or fines or any kind of cruel and unusual punishment inflicted. That being said, doesn't this go against what the death penalty is and what our 8th Amendment stands for? How do you position yourself? In this article I will list the reasons why we should get rid of the death penalty, which could really change how you feel and where you stand. When people ask why we shouldn't have the death penalty, the first reason that comes to mind is that it is immoral to what the United States stands for. Now you may ask, for whom is this immoral? To answer this question I need to define what immoral means, immoral means, according to Webster's dictionary, not conforming to patterns of conduct usually accepted or established as being consistent with personal and social principles. As stated in the previous paragraph, the 8th Amendment prohibits cruel or unusual conduct. Isn't it immoral to kill someone? Wouldn't this be immoral for the United States by going against our rights? There are many cases in which the person who committed the crime could have been considered “correctable.” This means that there are many professionals who could help understand what went wrong in the person who committed the crime and find ways to correct their behavior, rather than "killing" them. While the death penalty continues to be acceptable in the United States, the new idea would be to achieve "revenge" and not "correction." By taking revenge on people who act in the middle of the paper and do not do justice. If we choose to execute someone for the acts they committed, will that bring the victim back? No, “an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.” Who knows what the future holds when it comes to the death penalty? As long as we continue to execute people on death row, we will be spending more money, billions of dollars that we could save without the death penalty. Which means this money could go to our school systems or help close our massive economic deficit. As long as we continue to accept the death penalty in this country, the long phrase “two wrongs make a right” will continue to have some meaning. All I know is that I don't want to be in a state that will execute someone only to find out later that the person they executed turns out to be innocent. Do you?