Pros And Cons Of The Death Penalty

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

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

There are five ways to execute a person. The five are: lethal gas, lethal injection, electrocution, hanging, and firing squad. The most commonly used are lethal injection and electrocution. Lethal injection is when the people inject a shot into both of your arms. It takes about three minutes until the acid kills you. Firing squad is when a group of people has guns and the shoot at the murderers

Many states have been executing fewer people in the past decade and some states like Maryland and the District of Columbia have abolished capital punishment altogether. Many people shake and are repulsed by the live executions they see on television from the Middle East. From all the Western Countries, the United States is the only country that still upholds the death penalty. Even though the death penalty is legal in most states, just a few of them do still carry out executions. Reason for this could be that Americans are somehow okay with the idea of the states using the lethal injection as the best way to put a sick human being to endless sleep. Botched executions have also been exposed as a large problem seemingly unknown to the American public. The drugs that have been used for the lethal injections also seem to be experimental, untested and are sometimes proving to be ineffective at killing prisoners without some form of excruciating pain. Just because the prison is using pharmaceutical drugs does not necessarily mean that this is a painless process. Richard Dieter, Executive Director of the Death Penalty Information Center, says sceptism of lethal injection is “not driven by sympathy for the defendants, who committed terrible crimes,” but rather, “(the public) doesn’t want to hear gruesome facts,” such as prisoners writhing in agony while strapped to a gurney as their loved one’s watch. When the procedure is botched, it is anything but

This is one big controversial issue that we all hear about. It is all over the news, in newspapers and it is a really big concern. That issue wonders whether lethal injection is too kind or too brutal. Well that was a good question, so while conducting a lot of research. I discovered that that topic can be taken both ways.

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

At present there are five methods of execution. The most commonly used form of execution is by lethal injection. In this method the convict is first injected with sodium thiopental, which puts the person to sleep, then he/she is injected with Pavulon, which finally kills him. [1] The next most common method of execution used is electrocution in which the person is tied with leather straps to a chair and electric current of two thousand or more volts is passed through the body. The initial shock of the electricity causes the person’s body to surge forward. The shock burns the internal organs of the person, which leaves them dead. During this process urination, vomiting of blood, change in skin color, and even swelling or burning of the skin may occur. This method of execution is currently used by only eleven states. The third method is gas chamber execution in which hydrochloric acid and potassium is used to kill the convict. One of oldest methods of executions is hanging and last method is by shooting. All the five methods are inhumane and cruel. The convict dies within a few seconds. He never gets the time to realize his mistake, repent over it or to correct it. Killing that person

There are currently five different ways to carry out the death penalty in the United States. The first is death by firing squad. Death occurs because of massive damage to the body's vital organs, heart, central nervous system, or by a combination of these different effects with hemorrhage (The Execution Protocol). Probably the quickest way to execute a human being with a gun is to fire a single bullet from a piston at point blank range into the head. Yet in Idaho and Utah, the law specifies a five-man rifle squad.

The process of lethal injection that has always been used in the United States is that Sodium Thiopental is first put into the patient to put the inmate to sleep and then pancuronium bromide is used to paralyze muscle function and to stop the inmate’s breathing and finally potassium chloride is used to stop the inmate’s heart. They typically use this method of 3 different drugs so that if someone is allergic to one of the ingredients of one of the drugs that they can easily switch one of the drugs out for a drug without the ingredient that they are allergic to that serves the same purpose. Though this method has been used for over 30 years recent research has found that sometimes the anesthesia does not come into effect and many times the inmate is sitting there convulsing and feeling extreme pain and possibly experiencing asphyxiation, burning sensations. According

In about 33 or more states Lethal injection is still a method of execution. The lethal injection includes 2 needles connected with a tube that follows a series of medication killing the inmates. The series has the first sequence of just saline which has no effect. The second sequence is sodium thiopental this is an anesthetic which tends puts the inmate to rest. The last two sequences are pancuronium bromide (paralyzes entire system and discontinue breathing) and potassium chloride which is the final blow and stops the heartbeat. Fox News recommended that The electrocution method is not used in recent times except for 8 states. This method consist of shaving the inmate's body completely, a cleansing process with saline then appliance of jelly like creme, and finally after applying the metal skull cap they begin the process with “ Executioners usually give more than one jolt of electricity, to make sure the inmate is dead.“ (Fox News pg1,paragraph 11) Sometimes they have to repeat the jolt a second time assure that the inmate is dead. In all of these methods there is a doctor to instruct the procedure making sure that things go

Death by firing squad is still a method used in Utah, but must be at the prisoner’s request. There have only been two executions performed this way over the past 37 years (“Descriptions”; Kellaway 146). The convicted inmate is strapped to a chair with a hood over their head and a target pinned to their chest. The marksmen aim for the target from several feet away and death is caused by blood loss and can be a slow process (“Descriptions”). This method of execution has been found to be inefficient due to the fact that there is no certainty of instant death (Kellaway 147).

Lethal injection was intended to be the better alternative to hanging, firing squad, electrocution, or gas chamber but when pharmacies stopped providing their drugs after finding it was for deadly use and when stories of botched executions surfaced, the same concerns about the old methods of the death penalty were applied to lethal injection.

Dictionary.com says the definition of lethal injection is the act or instance of injecting a drug for purposes of capital punishment or euthanasia. In other words, putting chemicals into a person to kill them. There are four other types of execution. There is death by electrocuting the subject, death by putting the subject in to a gas chamber, death by hanging the subject, and death by a firing squad shooting the subject (“Methods of Execution”). Lethal injection is not the best way to execute the subject because the requirements are not thorough, the procedures are too complicated, and the expenses of everything combined are too great.

The intention of the drugs are to knock the person out, put them in a state of paralysis, and stop the heart. The injection is not meant to be painful, unless a human error occurs. It’s like the same as lighting a match. It’s not meant to be painful, but if you make an error, you could burn yourself. Why should we put an end to the most commonly used way of the death penalty simply because there is a low chance of there being an error. Even the Supreme Court ruled that lethal injection should be allowed, so why should we put an end to something with a low chance of happening. Even if it does happen and pain is inflicted, that will never match the pain inflicted on the person and the family of who was killed. Lethal injection is not meant to be torture, and is not cruel and unusual punishment, so it should be considered legal along the lines of the death

Executions have been a method of punishment for many years, yet the different types of executions have advanced in technology over the years. Every state has a different way of executing criminals. For example, Texas follows out the execution plan by conducting death by lethal injection. Our state law allows a jury to vote for “death by lethal injection” for convicted criminals, and I would vote to change this law.