In recent years the thought of exactions has become more immoral. More people see that in doing so the execution could be painful or unlawful. Over the years the style of being executed has been changed, from beheading, hanging, and stoning to death now the most applicable way is lethal injection. Simply the person affiliated will be put to sleep, then the body will go into a paralytic state and lastly the lungs will stop working. Stating there are no harm to come and no pain, making this the only efficient way to carry out lethal injections. Unfortunately, there is pain and agony when it comes to the lethal injection. Many times, the one overseeing the injection will get the amounts wrong and the patient could be conscious and expressive.
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
Medical practitioners traditionally do not inject the criminal with the cocktail used in lethal injections. They are typically done by others outside the medical profession, which could potentially lead to botched
Worded perfectly by The Scientific American, a magazine analyzing controversial issues in America said, “About two thirds of the states use a combination of barbituric, paralytic and toxic agents for executions, despite a lack of scientific evidence supporting their effectiveness.” The procedure is still subject to FDA approval, the agency has avoided questions ruling on the mixtures efficacy in “delivering a merciful death” (citation). This brings to light a harsh topic: is lethal injection truly cruel and unusual? Human Rights Watch is an international non government aided organization dedicated to protecting and establishing the appearance of human rights around the world. The report the HRW released, “So Long as They Die: Lethal Injection in the United States” (citation) The report highlighted a fact not a lot of people consider, “Prisoners in the United States are executed by means that the American Veterinary Medical Association regards as too cruel to use on cats and dogs.” A lot of the civilians who simply only read about death
The method of using lethal injection has now become the primary method of execution, throughout all fifty states and the federal government, after being declared constitutional in 1977. There are three different procedures; the one or two drug protocol typically uses a lethal dose of an anesthetic or sedative. The three drug protocol uses an anesthetic or sedative, which is then followed by pancuronium bromide to paralyze the inmate and potassium chloride to stop the inmate’s heart. In the case of Glossip v. Gross, Oklahoma death row inmates argued that the use of the three drug protocol in Oklahoma is “an injunction against the eighth amendment” (White) which put limitations on sentences and any cruel or unusual punishment. In Oklahoma, it
Lethal injections have been around for many years with the same basic idea and procedure. Lethal injection uses three drugs, a fast acting barbiturate that sedates the inmate and the drug Tubocurarine that paralyzes the inmate, and finally potassium chloride is used to stop his heart. These methods have been a controversial issue for many reasons. People that supports lethal injection believes that it is more humane method of execution than any other because it cause little or no pain. It also argued that it is less expensive than detaining or placing someone in jail for life. As far as lethal injection been unconstitutional because the procedure causes unusual pain and suffering, some people believe that someone who has kill countless people deserve to physical
As great effect as emotions can have on someone, even greater is the effect of how one reacts to his emotions. Arguably the two most influential of these emotions are guilt and anger. They can drive a man to madness or encourage actions of vindication. Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale are subject to this very notion in Nathaniel Hawthorne 's The Scarlet Letter. Hester simply accepted that what she had done was wrong, whereas Dimmesdale, being a man of high regard, did not want to accept the reality of what he did. Similar to Hester and Dimmesdale, Roger Chillingworth allows his emotions to influence his life; however, his influence came as the result of his anger. Throughout the book, Hawthorne documents how Dimmesdale and Hester 's
In the story “ The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, the setting is essential for the plot to be believable. For example, the setting has to be an isolated island. The setting must be an island in the middle of nowhere or else the general’s prey could get away. As Rainsford is running away from Zaroff’s chateau he is thinking “ He was in a picture with a frame of water, and his operations, clearly, must take place within that frame”(11). Rainsford is trapped on this island, with nowhere to go. In another setting, on a mainland for example, Rainsford could just keep on running until he hit civilization. The setting must be somewhere for prisoners to get trapped. Another reason is that the setting has to have a way of stranding General
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
This procedure uses resources, and has multiple requirements. Too many tangibles are wasted just to kill one person for a crime. Six people are in the death chamber other than the defendant. The executioner, medical doctor, physician’s assistant, and three security personnel(LIP). Also, There are a lot of drugs that are used to execute the execution. “Pancuronium Brominde[Pavulon] is a muscle relaxant mainly used as an adjuvant to anaesthesia during surgical operations, assisted ventilation and orthopaedic manipulation. Sodium thiopental(11)[Pentothal] is a barbiturate which includes general anaesthesia when administered intravenously and is also used in hypnosis. Potassium chloride(17).This salt is usually toxic if given intravenously at levels above 20 milliequivalents/hour and can affect the heart among other organs (The medical basis for lethal injection).” Using this many drugs to put down one person just seems like a waist, when there are much quicker, and less time consuming ways to kill people. Also, why would an execution need five people to supervise? When killing an inmate, most states do it the exact same way. It begins with the security personnel ties the inmate down to the gurney and connects him to the electrocardiogram. This machine monitors heart
The argument for unusual and cruel punishment in the context of execution by lethal injection is that the person suffers pain in the process of being killed. This stems, for example, from the fact that an inmate that is being
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
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)
Lethal injection is the practice of killing a death row inmate by using a lethal dose of drugs, however, the many problems with lethal injection include it not resulting in an immediate death, the lack of available drugs, and complaints from inmates. In fact, executions using lethal injection have lasted over 20 minutes, with the inmate moaning, convulsing, and gasping for air. A federal judge in Mississippi blocked lethal injection executions after 2 death row prisoners claimed it to be "chemical torture." Also, lawyers of death row prisoners in Tennessee argued that lethal injection is unconstitutional because of the horrendous and painful deaths that results from this method of execution. On the other hand, the Supreme Court ruled that "the Constitution does not require the avoidance of all risk of pain." The opposition argues that there is no right or wrong way to execute death row prisoners, whether or not lethal injection is humane, these prisoners are going to and should be executed for the crimes they have committed. In this case, the most sense would to be to choose the cheapest and most effective method of execution, which is not lethal injection. Drugs can no longer be purchased from European drug makers but now have to be purchased from American pharmacists where these specific drugs are not subject to the Food and Drug Administration. These pharmacists are also displeased with trade
The way we carry out these executions is by lethal injection, which is much more humane than any ways we have carried it out in historical times (McCuen 27). A prison official had claimed, “The guy will just go to sleep forever. It will be easy-real easy” (49). He says said this when referring to a man who was on death row. By using lethal injection, the United States is ridding itself of criminals, and is carrying it out in the most humane way possible (Kurtz). Professor John McAdams of Marquette University said, “If we execute murderers and there is in fact no deterrent effect, we have killed a bunch of murderers. If we fail to execute murderers, and doing so would in fact have deterred other murderers, we have allowed the killing of a bunch of innocent victims. I would much rather risk the former. This, to me, is not a tough call” (Marzilli 21).
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