The Eighth Amendment's Argument Against The Death Penalty

The death penalty is always going to be a “hot topic” in today’s society. The Eighth Amendment guarantees a criminal’s rights against cruel and unusual punishment. The Eighth amendment was adopted in 1791, when beheading, burning at the stake and crucifixion was just a few of the ways to execute a criminal.
Now in current times, the lethal injection has been on trial as cruel and unusual punishment. In 2008,the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of lethal injection.
Clayton Lockett was a convicted murderer of a teenage girl, that he kidnapped, shot and buried alive. He received the death penalty. In 2014, the sentence was carried out, but apparently he did not die painlessly and quickly enough. Apparently, his vein

had blown out and all the drug dosage did not all go in. Lockett groaned and moved around as if he was in pain, and it took him forty-three minutes to die instead of the ten to fifteen minutes. President Obama ordered a full review of the death penalty procedures. Many states halted their death penalty executions because of the cruel and unusual punishemtn that Lockett suffered, until this could be reviewed..
I am thinking so what if he suffered forty-three minutes before he died. What about the victim’s rights, they were violated when she was kidnapped, shot and buried alive. The terror she must have felt when all of this was taking place, and the cruel and unusual punishment that she had to suffer. Now, the states worry that the convicted felon may feel pain when they are being executed, where is the justice in that. Why should they not feel the same type of fear and pain that they put an innocent victim through?
Six year old Megan Kanka was raped and murdered by Jesse Timmednequas, he had previous convictions of sexual assault. The state of New Jersey sentenced him to death, but in 2007 New Jersey abolished the death penalty in their state. The death sentences were commuted to life sentences. Why should the murderer get to live when a six year old had to suffer the cruel and unusual punishment before she was killed?
Captial punishment should not be taken lightly, the courts, juries and all the appeals are in place to double check all of the facts on the crime, before a death sentence is carried out. The major concern that I have with capital punishment being ceased in states because of violating the Eighth Amendment of the convicted felon, who is protecting the Constitution Rights of the victim. They were guaranteed life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The death penalty in states sends the message that certain crimes will not be tolerated and capital punishment is in place for criminals that commit these crimes.