Civil right is to provide equal right and opportunity to individual and protect from arbitrary at the hands of the government or other individual. A central principle of a society is that every person has an equal right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. A society found on moral principle has certain requirements. A person has the rights to belong to a society. Society is built requires each citizen to honor the rightful ones own clans of others.

        There are many argument about the issue of the death penalty in the United States over the period of times. People bring out many issues about the American constitution that there are civil rights for individual and the society. Then why there are many countries still have the death penalty. Majority people asked "It's there is a civil right for the people in the United States, why the government have to past death penalty law?" Also people think that human life has intrinsic value, even if a person has murdered another. Nobody should ever be killed, even by the states. The death penalty is not a justice punishment, because man kind should not take the life of another. No matter if it is the government or the legal system. When someone committed murder the "person should be sentenced to life imprisonment, not execution. Killing this person will not bring the back the victim, it will only serve as revenge." (Apgar). The question about the death penalty is this that if it is going against the Eight Amendment of the constitution in the use of cruel and unusual punishment for first degree murder was not cruel and unusual punishment." (Apgar). Defender of the death penalty argue that elimination of the death penalty would cause a risk to society.

        Meaning every time a guilty person is convicted of murder, but not sentenced society runs a risk of that person killing again. The crime may be committed against a fellow inmate, a prison visitor, or prison employee or even the public in general. Supreme court of the United States has declared that the Eight Amendment prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment limits the ability of the government to provide the death penalty for any crime it wishes. This was influenced by Coker V. Georgia (1977), Coker held that the death penalty was constitutionally impermissible sentence for a crime that is non-homicidal. The court's opinion is an excessive and therefore cruel and unusual punishment.