At present, there are thirty-six states in the United States and over one hundred countries that have legislation enforcing capital punishment for crimes of murder or rape. In Canada the death penalty was abolished in 1976, due to the fact that it infringes on the rights of Canadians as documented by the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.1 Also, there was much influence from the citizens of the country to debate this very serious topic. Capital punishment …showed first 75 words of 4757 total…

…showed last 75 words of 4757 total…the death penalty unconstitutional. The unequal distribution of death sentences between blacks, and whites is arbitrary and inconsistent, and therefore constitutes cruel and an unusual punishment, by means of discrimination. Which encroaches upon section fifteen of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Section fifteen states that'every individual is equal before, and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination and in particular without di