Lethal Injection Case

The State of Texas was the first to perform a lethal injection execution and it is ranked first in executions as far back as 1976. Approximately, there have been over two hundred and eighty death penalties and a hundred and sixteen executions from 1982. Lethal injection involves injecting one or a variety of drugs into the person for the main cause of immediate death to him or her ("Texas | Death Penalty Information Center"). Characteristically, three drugs have been used. Sodium thiopental is an anesthesia which causes sleep, injecting with pancuronium bromide for paralysis of the muscles and to cause respiratory failure and the potassium chloride stops the heart from pumping. An intravenous salty drip is started in the arm of the prisoner

That question is a debate that has been occuring for years. The supreme court has previously ruled that the dealth penalty is not cruel and unusual punishment there for it is not violating the eighth amendment in any way. Despite how the supreme court has ruled the death penalty, there is still many arguments till this day on whether or not it should fall under cruel and unusual punishment. In 1972, the case Furman V. Georgia was brought in front of the supreme court to rule whether or not they believed the dealth penality was cruel and unusual. This case almost ruled out the death penalty, but that didn't last very long. In 1976, the case Gregg V. Georgia came in front of the Supreme Court and the earlier decision was changed because a majority vote believed that the dealth penalty was not cruel and unusual. Eventually four principals were established to decided whether or not punishment was cruel and unusual. The four questions were, is it degrading to human dignity? Is it arbitary? Is it rejected throughout society? Is it unnecessary? Which many states ended up believing that the death penalty were along the lines of those four principals. Clayton Lockett might be a tragic example of the death penalty going bad. He was getting injected, but the injection didn't kill him up until an hour after it was injected. He had to sit there and suffer and many would of

Since 2012, the use of lethal injection has been legal in 31 states, to contaminate a convict. 1,423 people innocent and guilty have died from the death penalty since 1972. I strongly believe that the death penalty is unconstitutional being that it violates the Eighth Amendment, irreversible, and executes a large amount of hypocrisy.

Their a many cons to the death penalty. One is that during lethal injection does not always work and by that I mean that many things could go wrong. A few things are that they always can’t find a vein. This happens because heroin and drug users, their veins go deep because of the drug abuse. Also not always the drugs injected work the the inmate could stay awake and see and feel everything. This is very painful if you didn’t know. According to the New Republic a inmate named Angel Diaz was sentenced to the capital punishment by lethal injection. The execution went completely wrong. The IV was inserted incorrectly and that cost the vein to burst. Diaz skin started to turn black and parts of his skin turned pink. Diaz started to ooze a pinkish liquid. Diaz suffered a painful death and that went against the 8th amendment cruel and unusual punishment. Also in cases there was hate or the want for revenge so there was bias and inmates were given an unfair trial. Also racism has been a factor because in a

Each county was responsible to carry out executions on their own until in 1923, when the state implemented a law saying executions should be done through electrocutions in Huntsville (Champagne). This violated the Eighth Amendment because the criminals felt the pain of being electrocuted. As a result, in 1977, the state required that lethal injection be the sole method of execution in Texas (Champagne). Although the lethal injection was to be painless and that it was created for the benefit of the criminal, it still violates The Eighth Amendment because it is inhumane. The crime done by the prison cannot be justified by taking the prisoner’s life. Capital punishment takes the like of a person, and what can be taken can never be taken back anymore. In 2011, the drug they used in the lethal injection had to be changed from sodium thiopental to pentobarbital because of the international attention and protestations it received in the United States (Champagne). The issues concerning pentobarbital as part of the three-drug cocktail in the lethal injection arose when officials did not want to say the source where they are getting their pentobarbital from (Dart). When Texas had to execute a man this April using new batches of pentobarbital, protestors claimed that because of the source’s lack of authenticity, it was possible that “an excessively painful execution”

Historically, executions have been around for a long time. The first established death penalty laws date as far back as the Eighteenth Century B.C. but didn’t make an appearance in the United States until 1608 (Part 1, n.d.). Death penalty is seen as a form of accountability for someone’s action. Most easily understood when you take a life, you lose your life--an eye for an eye. Nonetheless, over time people have started humanizing the situation and creating controversy. The Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments were interpreted as permitting the death penalty, until the early 1960s, when it was suggested that the death penalty was a "cruel and unusual" punishment, and therefore arguing it as unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment (Part

Could that be considered cruel and unusual punishment? This is one valid argument that people make. That is why it is important for the commission to look at the constitutionality of the death penalty. If lethal injection truly is cruel and unusual then that would be illegal in the eyes of the federal government. Nobody has the authority to go

Capital punishment has been a thing for many decades of course it comes with its controversies as with most things. A lot of these controversies surround the continued use of it including lethal injection and the possible suffering the inmate might deal with. One case in particular is the Supreme Court ruling against several Oklahoma death row inmates who were looking to bar the drug due to the immense pain.

2014 was the worst year in the 37th year history of the lethal injection. That year four executions were reported as problematic. For example on the evening of July 23, 2014, Joseph Rudolph Wood III was killed at the Florence State Penitentiary in Arizona. Wood was first convicted in 1989. He awaited the day of his execution for over 15 years. The day finally came. The execution of Wood began at exactly 1:52 MST. His death was supposed to be fast, painless, and most importantly, instantaneous. This did not actually happen that day. What was supposed to be a ten minute procedure, lasted over two whole excruciating, agonizing, two hour, of his life. The “deadly” drug cocktail that was injected into his body that

Lethal injection is now almost the main method of execution in the US, with all but one of the 39 executions carried out during 2013 being by this method. Deadly injection changes from state to state.Normally, the prisoner is strapped to a gurney or a fixed execution table, rather than an operating room table by leather or webbing straps over the body and legs. All the chemicals used in the USA are standard medical drugs. Sodium thiopental is an ultra short acting barbiturate which was used widely as an anaesthetic and causes unconsciousness very quickly if injected into a vein."Capital punishment is supposed to serve the purposes of social defense and retribution. The argument that it deters or incapacitates dangerous offenders was not conclusively supported, and analysis of data herein failed to provide solid evidence for the death penalty as a mechanism of social defense."(Sorensen & Pilgrim,2006 , p.159)

Another case that was used was Dennis McGuire who was executed in Ohio last year. The petitioners used multiple similar cases where midazolam was used which helped to back up their main argument that midazolam does in fact violate the Eighth Amendment because it causes unusual pain and suffering to the prisoners. Oklahoma was forced to use midazolam because after the Blaze v. Rees case, anti-death penalty advocates forced and pressured companies that supplied sodium thiopental and pentobarbital to no longer supply the executions. As a result, several questions from the petitioners were brought to the case; 1) “is it constitutionally permissible for a state to carry out an execution using a three-drug protocol where is scientific proof that the first drug has no pain relieving properties and cannot reliably produce a deep unconsciousness” (Skelton), 2) does the case of Blaze v. Rees still stand if different drugs are being used, and 3) “ must a prisoner establish the availability of an alternative drug formula even if the state’s lethal-injection protocol, as properly administered, will violate the Eighth Amendment”

In society today, capital punishment is not usually seen as favorable. The supposedly painless lethal injection, given to death row inmates in states that still allow capital punishment, can be seen as a more

Capital Punishment is usually reserved for the country's most vicious and non-rehabilitatable murderers. These men and women actually will know the day they die; albeit not naturally. These Inmates will be put to death by a U.S. state, the federal government, or the U.S. military. The most common method of execution is lethal injection. Lethal injection is used in some states in conjunction with the less popular hanging, electrocution, lethal gas, and shooting squad methods. But, in recent times these antiquated methods are used as a backup in case of shortage of the drugs required for lethal injection. Large pharmaceutical companies, such as Pfizer, have no longer been selling their drugs to correctional institutions for

The three-drug sequence used today in lethal injections was developed almost three decades ago and then, over the following two decades, was adopted by all but one of the death penalty states. The first drug, sodium thiopental, is a fast-acting sedative that induces a deep, coma-like unconsciousness. The second drug, pancuronium bromide, is a paralytic agent that inhibits all muscular-skeletal movements and stops respiration. Potassium chloride, the third drug, interferes with the electrical signals that cause contractions of the heart, inducing cardiac arrest [1.].

Lethal injection is the practice of injecting a combination of poisons into a person with a fatal dose of drugs, for the fundamental express purpose of causing immediate death. The main application for this procedure is capital punishment, but the term may also be applied in an ample sense to euthanasia and suicide. It kills the person by first putting the person to sleep, and then stopping the breathing and heart, in that exact order. Physicians should participate in execution, under all circumstances. Thirty-six states in the United States of America allow the death penalty, out of those thirty-six, twenty-eight states require a doctor to be present at