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When should a person be placed on death row? The death penalty has been around since about 321 B.C. IN Ancient Greece for a large range of offenses. Most of the offenses involved in puting the subject to death would be violent cases in which he or she commited a murder in a malicious way or premeditated. The crimes that I believe should be an automatic death penalty would be thoses committed on children, women, and the elderly. These group of people are often defenseless and cannot overpower the brute strength of a man. But of course not all murderers are an automatic for the death penalty, there are degrees in which manner they choose to execute this crime. For instance, First degree murder has certain elements it needs to be a first degree murder. It has to be premediated, and if they so happen to have killed a person of high authority, then they may face a death penalty. Second degree murder is a lesser charge that is given to people had the intent to murder but did not plan to, or at the heat of the moment type of thing. Third degree murderers will probably never recieve the death penalty because of the degree of the circumstance.

Sexual assualts are not serious enough to be considered a capital crime. Although they may spend 25 years to life behind bars, the offense is not that serious for the subject to be placed under, this would break the right against cruel and unusual punishment. This is a crime that will stay with the victim forever but as long as they remain alive from the crime, so will the subject, as its only fair. This crime today carries stiff penalties but should not surpass to the consideration of the possible death penalty to the convict, even though he or she is a degenerate career criminal, but they will spend life behind bars so no one will ever be hurt by them. At the same time he or she will have their entire life to think about it in jail.