Romney And The Death Penalty

On November 15, the death penalty law submitted by Massachusetts Governor, Mitt Romney, was rejected. Governor Romney had stated that his plan was foolproof and that there was no way any innocent person could be committed. He stated that capital punishment would be used in "very, very rare circumstances," like cases involving terrorism, serial killings or the deaths of police officers or other public servants. Critics said that no bill was really foolproof and that innocent people would, in fact, end up getting executed.


The history if the death penalty goes back to the eighteenth century B.C. It was first "protested" by William the Conqueror, in the eleventh century A.D.,when he said that people could only be hung if they had committed murder. The first recorded execution of a person in America happened in the Jamestown colony of Virginia in 1608 to Captain George Kendall, Kendall was executed for being a spy for Spain. Since then capital punishment has often been debated about, many states have since abolished it in there vicinity. On November 2, 1982 voters amended the Massachusetts Constitution in which stating: No provision of the Constitution... Shall be construed as prohibiting the imposition of the punishment of death. Since then this issue has often been debated, in which this form of punishment has been instated and taken back on numerous occasions.