Types Of Punishments That Comes With The Death Penalty

In the past, the death penalty used to be more aggressive than it is nowadays. On the books there are four types of death penalty

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

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.

If the defendant was found guilty in one of the thirty five United States that enforced the death penalty, he would most likely be executed by means of lethal injection. Lethal injection has proven to be the most humane way of euthanizing criminals. Before this, up to 4 different methods had been used in the United States. These included hangings, firing squads, gas chambers and the infamous electric chair.

     The death penalty is the sentence of execution for murder and other capital crimes. Which are punishable by death? The death penalty is used only in 38 states

Geoffrey Abbott, author of Execution: The Guillotine, the Pendulum, the Thousand Cuts, the Spanish Donkey, and 66 Other Ways of Putting Someone to Death, does a particularly well job explaining and detailing almost every method of execution in the different eras throughout history. He tells of how the people being executed felt and how the executioners felt. He also explains how each execution type was carried out. Executions back in the day were very gruesome, but details on the historical events cannot just be exempted out if you want to explain these hectic methods. Just a few categories covered were: the Axe- this was when a person was put on a wooden block with a space between the neck and then was decapitated. Also there was Bastinado-which was to be beaten with a stick on their feet until they die (by far the weirdest way to execute someone in my opinion.) Also there was the guillotine- when the prisoner was placed on a block and then a heavy blade from above come crashing down on the neck of the prisoner decapitating him (this method of execution was one of the coolest methods.) What is cooler way to go than a huge blade chopping off your head? It is by far one of the quickest and most painless. Another method was Torn Apart by Horses- this is when your arms and legs are tied to a horse and then each horse runs in a separate direction ripping your limbs off. What a way to go. I cannot fathom what it would have been like to be executed like that. Those are just some

They thought execution by gas chamber was a more humane way of executing prisoners. Only five states authorize lethal gas as a method of execution, but all have lethal injection as a secondary option. The inmate is strapped to a chair in an airtight chamber. Below the chair rests a bucket of sulfuric acid. A long stethoscope is usually attached to the inmate so that a doctor on the outside the chamber can pronounce death. When everyone has left the chamber, it is sealed. The warden gives a signal to the executioner who turns on a lever that releases crystals of sodium cyanide into the bucket. This causes a chemical reaction that releases hydrogen cyanide gas. The prisoner is told to breathe deeply to speed up the process. The inmate does not lose consciousness immediately. According to former San Quenton, California, Penitentiary warden, Clifton Duffy, "At first there is evidence of extreme horror, pain, and strangling. The eyes pop. The skin turns purple and the victim begins to drool." The feeling is similar to the pain felt by a person during a heart attack, where essentially the heart is being deprived of oxygen." The inmate dies from hypoxia, the cutting-off of oxygen to the brain. At postmortem, an fan removes the poison air out of the chamber, and the corpse is sprayed with ammonia to neutralize any remaining traces of cyanide. Half an hour later, nurses enter the chamber, wearing gas masks and rubber gloves.

Over the course of human history the earliest known concept of capital punishment has been around since the 18th Century BCE, where the Code of King Hammurabi of Babylon codified the death penalty for twenty five different crimes (Reggio, 2015). From the 18th Century until now there have been many other societies that have used capital punishment for various crimes, such as the Hittite Code, Draconian Code of Athens, and also Roman law. Those different cultures used different methods for execution and followed different rules for people of different race, religion, creed, social status, etc. As history progressed, capital punishment itself has gone through many changes; the ways of execution have evolved from brutal and torturous methods such as burning at the stake, burying alive, bludgeoning to death, impalement,

All these are intended to be as painless as possible and many people believe so however there is no humane way to kill. s. John Wayne Gacy, Jr, also known as the Killer Clown, was an American serial killer and rapist in Illinois, who was not afraid of death, was executed via lethal injection—the most efficient, risk-free method. Yet his death did not go as planned. The sodium thiopental entered his bloodstream successfully and put him to sleep. The pancuronium bromide was then administered successfully, which paralyzed his diaphragm. This would cause asphyxiation if the next chemical, potassium chloride, if not immediately administered to stop the heart. But the potassium chloride had set in its tube before Gacy was brought into the room. He was unconscious and unable to breathe for several minutes while the last drug’s tube was changed. His death took eighteen minutes, instead of the usual seven. This displays that even in the easiest cases the death penalty cannot go to plan and cause them much pain. Why take these risks when there are other ways around it and now im going to tell you what it

If a jury returns a decision of death, a trial judge is called upon to determine whether to decrease the sentence to life without the probability of parole. Trial judges infrequently decrease a death judgement to life without parole. If the jury returns a life verdict, the judge has no power to enforce death.

The first use of the gas chamber was in 1924 in Nevada. In 1973 there were 13 states using the gas chamber as a means of execution (Kellaway 142). Currently, there are only five states that still utilize it as an optional method (“Descriptions”). The gas chamber is a hermetically sealed room that contains a single chair which the condemned is strapped to while a hood is placed over their head. At the wardens’ signal, sodium cyanide crystals are dropped into a pail of sulfuric acid creating hydrogen

A widely known form of retribution is the death penalty. The Death Penalty puts you on death row if you committed a crime such as; treason, terrorism, federal murder, large-scale drug trafficking. After you are put on death row, it may take years before you are executed, some even die from natural causes or suicide before their execution. Execution can be done in many forms such as; Lethal Injection (typically a combination of the three drugs sodium thiopental, pancuronium bromide and potassium chloride for immediate death) , Electrocution (Commonly known method is the electric chair which only six states do any more), Gas Chamber (Lethal gas which yet again only six states do any more), Firing Squad (group of soldiers designated to shoot down

Do you know the different types of punishments that comes with the death penalty? Do you know what effects these punishments can

The gas chamber, first used in Nevada in 1921, was located in an airtight room with a chair into which the accused was strapped. Death was then caused by an exposure to cyanide gas. As noted in the article Debate Over Capital Punishment-A Pro Stance, the suffering caused is easy to see; the prisoner is writing, vomiting, shaking and gasping for breath for many seconds (“Debate Over”). Lethal Injection, another form of execution, was introduced in 1977 and is now used in twenty-three states. This is the most widespread method and believed to be the most humane. The convicted is strapped to a table and injected with sodium thiopentone, loosing consciousness in ten to fifteen seconds. This is then followed by pancuronium bromide, which blocks respiration, and finally potassium chloride to stop the heart (“Debate Over”).

In short, the death penalty has been around for millions of years to punish those whom committed a crime or broke the rules that the king or the government have set. The methods have changed drastically beginning from the most well-known crucifixion to the two most humane methods currently which are the lethal injection or lethal gas. There are currently only five methods of executions used in the United States. Those five methods are: hanging, firing squad, electrocution, lethal gas, lethal injection. Throughout history, there have been changes over the years on the methods of capital punishment that are used in the United States.