In the United States, there are many different method of punishment that people can face after committing a crime. Many people believe that these actions are considered cruel and unusual and violate the 8th amendment of our constitution. The death penalty is the first one. In my opinion, the death penalty should be allowed. The only method of the death penalty should be through injection. There are many other ways that people could be killed, the electric chair, for example, is one method that should absolutely not be allowed. Making someone suffer is not the way that people should be killed. A type of injection should be the only method allowed. Second is solitary confinement. This should be allowed, but I think that people should be able to see face to face with other people there. Taking away someone's communication with other people is cruel because it makes them lose their confidence and makes people become more angry. People who are trapped become very self conscience and can make people become depressed. I think that in some cases it can help people but most just go crazy and end up back where they started. I think the levels is a good idea. It allows people to earn new things and helps people manage their anger and cooperate. The third type that is being argued is physiological torture. This would be one of the worst punishments that someone could receive. Taking away someone's senses and making them face their fears while being blind folded is cruel and is a form of torture. People who have done something to get them there know they have done the worst of the worst and although our government feels like they should be treated the way they treated someone else is not going to make anything better in the situation. Forcing people to do things they don't want to do isn't going to make them stop being a bad person and I'm sure whenever that person is released, they are going to want revenge on the people who make their life terrible for so long. There are other methods of punishment that can be given rather then philologically torturing someone. The government needs to find new ways to make people pay for the crimes that they committed that are going to help them be a better person, not make them want to kill or harm someone else. Putting people in a room for a short period of time is something that would be okay, but making someone stay in a room with no connection to the outside would for years at a time makes people go crazy and I don't think it would help anything. There are many things that go on in the United States that we don't know about, but looking at the things that we do know about makes America not seem like the place we make it out to be. Many cruel and unusual punishments go on in America everyday and our government needs to find new ways of punishment for the criminals of the United States. 
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