WHY IS CAPITAL PUNISHMENT (DEATH PENALTY) "CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT" AND A VIOLATION OF THE 8TH AMENDMENT?" (USA CONSTITUTION)
Why is capital punishment "cruel and unusual punishment," something outlawed by the 8th amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America? Because the execution of Jesus of Nazareth in Israel by the Roman state empire and the corrupt, legalistic leaders of Israel at the time, which was the definition of "cruel and unusual punishment," was meant to be the final capital punishment. Why? Because it demonstrated that innocent people can wrongly be put to death. That should be the final argument for the death penalty. And, because all human beings deserve the death penalty as punishment for our sins, whether they are simple or grievous, because all humanity has been equally imprisoned upon the earth, and banished from Heaven as sons and daughters of Adam and Eve. The only way to be reborn as sons and daughters of God's Kingdom is through the one capital punishment of Jesus, the Son of God, which was ordained by God as the only eternal "peace-treaty" with earth's people or the "New Covenant" of Mercy and Grace. This perfectly fulfilled the "Old Covenant," of "eye-for-an-eye," imperfect justice of legalism, which still motivates Islamic justice today, and so-called Godless, secular "justice," in America and other secular Western cultures.
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN THE ROMAN STATE EMPIRE
The Roman Empire used the capital punishment of nailing human beings to wooden cross-beams, or "crucifixion," to control God's people, even executing them for minor offenses, or anyone they considered a threat, similar to what oppressive regimes in recent history have done. Condemning people to animal cages, sometimes for what many people would consider lessor offenses, or even being innocent, does not "cleanse them of their sins." Putting them to death, depending on the circumstances, can be the equivalent of making human sacrifices to the idol of state legalism.
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT OF UNBORN CITIZENS
Putting unborn human beings to death by the same secular state authority, is the equivalent of making human sacrifes to the devil. The state has no right to execute people by default for minor offenses, which is what happened to Sandra Bland in Texas. It happened because of the archaic, arbitrary, and obsolete design of the corrupt, costly and innefective justice system in America that does nothing whatsoever to deter crime. Not one person ever considered the death penalty or even prison before they committed their crimes, or one drug addict from their drugs.
WAKE UP MILLENIALS! UNCLE SAM WANTS YOU!
Not only that, for the millenial generation, just losing their iphones for a week or their freedom, amounts to "cruel and unusual punishment." Taking first offenders, and low offenders, especially young people, or drug addicts, or emotionally burdoned adults and women, and throwing them to the wolves in animal cages, is an easy case for law suits because of the emotional devastation that this kind of trauma can cause. Many of these young people are scarred for life, and consistently, they take their own lives within hours or days, when faced by this kind of immoral oppression and psychological avalanche that is no different from Nazi concentration camps, or Taliban/Islamic oppression.
ECONOMIC JUSTICE FOR MILLENIALS AND MINORITIES WHO DIED IN PRISON
These people deserve economic justice! Those who try to continue to unjustly imprison America and minorities, will find themselves opposing God Himself, who says: "I have come to announce freedom to those who have been given the death-penalty," (all humanity) (paraphrase of Jesus quoting the prophet Isaiah at Nazareth). And, "God did not send His Son into the world to condemn it, but to save it." (John 3:17; NLT)
THE WAR ON DRUGS CAN NOT BE WON USING PAST OR PRESENT POLICIES--INCARCERATION INCREASES DANGER TO SOCIETY
This is why many people rightly believe that the "WAR ON DRUGS IS OVER!! AND WE LOST." One police chief said this and added that "THERE IS NO WAY WE CAN ARREST OUR WAY OUT OF THIS." He understood that for every one drug dealer that is taken out, there are a thousand more still at work, and another thousand waiting in the wings. There's just not enough personnel. The answer is in a radical strategic paradigm-shift. It's not rocket science.
JESUS: THE FINAL CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
Conversely, the divine justice of the "New Covenant," which Jesus established, is one where all people who truly repent and turn from their sins, and turn to God, become a part of the free-pardon of the Cross of Christ, who took the death penalty for humanity who want to walk in God's friendship. Even in the Old Testament, the most well-known king, king David, who had God's favor and who Jesus was descended from, once spared the life of a king who had even executed many Jewish priests and their families, causing him to repent in tears, and endorse him as king. He said he still had to face God's justice, but that he refused to execute him. This is the unimaginable justice of a true king--the divine King of Heaven and earth.
PAUL OF TARSUS: A FORMER MURDERER HELPS ESTABLISH CHRISTIANITY
The Apostle Paul confirms that the Law of Moses, which has it's roots in religious law, not secular law, can not save or reform anyone since it is based on the fallen concept of legalism or "punishment for punishment's sake" (eye-for-an-eye mentality), who once actively murdured Christians as "enemies of the Jewish state or religion," says in Romans 7:7-
THE FUTILITY OF THE LAW AND SECULAR LEGALISM: PAUL--ROMANS 7:7-13; NLT)
"...The law is not sinful, but it was the law that showed me my sin...If there was no law, sin would not have that power. I felt fine when I did not understand wha the law demanded. But when I learned the truth, I realized I had broken the law and was a sinner, doomed to die. So the good law, which was supposed to show me the way of life, instead gave me the death penalty...But still, the law itself is holy and right and good...So we can see how terrible sin really is. It uses God's good comandment for its own evil purposes." (i.e., Capital punishment and excessive imprisonment or sacrificing lives to the idol of secular legalism). (From Romans 7:7-13--NLT)
WHAT IS THE ANSWER?
What is the answer? Paul, speaking for Jesus and the law, explains in Romans 8-3--
"So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus. For the power of the life-giving Spirit has freed you through Christ Jesus from the power of sin that leads to death. The Law of Moses could not save us, because of our sinful nature." (Romans 8:1-3)
Think of where Christianity would be if God had allowed the Israelites and the Romans to imprison or execute the Apostle Paul before he had completed his mission--to highlight the message of the Free-Gift of God's Grace, that can never be earned, because of how amazingly awesome it is! Without Jesus, it would be like an eagle trying to fly into the sun on it's own power...it's just not possible.