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If doing so follows the constitution, laws, regulations, and statutes of the land, it is legitimate for a government court to sentences someone to death.

Some may feel that a death sentence is murder or that taxation is a form of theft or even that corporal punishment, maiming or torture as punishment is a form of excessive cruelty. That would not negate the legitimacy of the government behavior if it falls within the laws of the government.

That is why the United States constitution includes the Bill and the Eighth Amendment which forbids excessive bail and cruel or unusual punishment and the U.S., Supreme Court has decided that the death sentence is legitimate, but only under certain conditions.

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If doing so follows the constitution, laws, regulations, and statutes of the land, it is legitimate for a government court to sentences someone to death.Some may feel that a death sentence is murder or that taxation is a form of theft or even that corporal punishment, maiming or torture as punishment is a form of excessive cruelty. That would not negate the legitimacy of the government behavior if it falls within the laws of the government.That is why the United States constitution includes the Bill and the Eighth Amendment which forbids excessive bail and cruel or unusual punishment and the U.S., Supreme Court has decided that the death sentence is legitimate, but only under certain conditions.


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