November 21, 2001 The Bottom Line: Innocence A debatable issue in today’s society is the death penalty. Should our nation obtain or refrain from this “cruel and unusual” punishment? It all comes down to people’s social construction. People are socially constructed in their beliefs as to which side they stand on this issue. The people who are for the ultimate punishment of death for a heinous crime are socially constructed to believe that justice has …showed first 75 words of 1575 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1575 total…made by social constructions. It contains ones beliefs and values on which they were constructed to believe in society. If you look at how many states support the death penalty as a form of punishment one would see that most of our society supports capital punishment. There are currently 38 states with the death penalty leaving only 12 that do not. However out of those 38 states there are seven states that have not had an execution since 1976.