the process will then repeat. Medical personnel will assess the inmate each round but must first wait five minutes due to the scorching body temperature.
The death penalty has been one of the most controversial topics in the entire criminal justice system. From the costs, religion, victim impact, inmate and staff psychological effects, botched executions, deterrence, all the way to those who have no opinion at all, the arguments have fallen into several different categories. With evidence to back up some of these arguments though, people still continue to carry out their beliefs anyway. From the moment America adopted this sentencing there has been both people for, and against executions. As long as this form of punishment is around, the arguments on whether state held killings should or should not be conducted, will continue on. …show more content…
They’re twenty four hours long, and I spent six thousand and forty, worst days of my life, on death row”. Anthony Graves gave this statement in his documentary called “My last day” after he was exonerated from the death penalty. Found innocent eighteen years succeeding his conviction, he became the one hundred and thirty eighth inmate exonerated from death row since 1973. A total of three hundred and fifty people have been acquitted in all, with one hundred and fifty six of those being after capital punishment was reinstated. Not all inmates who are exonerated though get to walk home a free man such as the way Anthony did. Some may be condemned to serve a lesser sentence such as life in prison without parole. Kirk Bloodsmith, who was also released from death row due to DNA testing, quoted “We can no longer accept this fatal flaw in our criminal justice system as a reality. Humans make mistakes and when innocent lives are at stake, there can be no room for
The death penalty has been one of the most controversial topics in the entire criminal justice system. From the costs, religion, victim impact, inmate and staff psychological effects, botched executions, deterrence, all the way to those who have no opinion at all, the arguments have fallen into several different categories. With evidence to back up some of these arguments though, people still continue to carry out their beliefs anyway. From the moment America adopted this sentencing there has been both people for, and against executions. As long as this form of punishment is around, the arguments on whether state held killings should or should not be conducted, will continue on. …show more content…
They’re twenty four hours long, and I spent six thousand and forty, worst days of my life, on death row”. Anthony Graves gave this statement in his documentary called “My last day” after he was exonerated from the death penalty. Found innocent eighteen years succeeding his conviction, he became the one hundred and thirty eighth inmate exonerated from death row since 1973. A total of three hundred and fifty people have been acquitted in all, with one hundred and fifty six of those being after capital punishment was reinstated. Not all inmates who are exonerated though get to walk home a free man such as the way Anthony did. Some may be condemned to serve a lesser sentence such as life in prison without parole. Kirk Bloodsmith, who was also released from death row due to DNA testing, quoted “We can no longer accept this fatal flaw in our criminal justice system as a reality. Humans make mistakes and when innocent lives are at stake, there can be no room for