A life is something that we cherish the most. From humans to cats and everywhere in between someone somewhere cares for that life. But sometimes people commit offenses that take the life of another away. This leaves us with the hard decision of what do with those who commit these crimes. Do we take from them what they have taken from another or, do we lock them away for life to let them think about what they have done. This is what makes the death penalty so controversial. If life is the ultimate prize, can we take it from another? Some people believe that the death penalty should be kept in place to deter citizen from committing capital offenses. They believe that putting the guilty to death gives the family closure; current DNA is good enough
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The 8th Amendment to the Constitution, put in by the founding fathers of the United States, states that no one will be put through cruel and unusual punishment. The current method of execution is lethal injection. In the scientific community lethal injection is considered the least painful and most humane. The problem is even no one is exactly sure how painful the experience is. “The procedure typically involves the injection of three substances: first, sodium thiopental to induce anesthesia, followed by pancuronium bromide to relax muscles, and finally potassium chloride to stop the heart”(Motluk). In theory the first injection puts you to sleep, the second relaxes you, and the third speeds your heart up so much that it eventually gives out. The problem is the doctors and nurses are not allowed to perform these tasks due to ethical guidelines; which leaves those without specific training to administer the dosing (Motluk). This leaves a large range for error when it comes to the life of the patient. “Even where the same execution protocol and the same blood sampling procedure was used, they found that levels varied dramatically - from 8.2 to 370 milligrams per liter. In other inmates, mere trace levels were recorded” (Motluk). Without the ability to know exactly what the person is feeling the use of lethal injection is considered cruel and …show more content…
Well at least that is what we are told. With 150 individual having been exonerated, but that doesn’t consider all the others that could be innocent also. Not all individuals on death row are innocent, but with over 3,000 constituents on death row it is possible that there is more. Not only are these people wrongly convicted, they also have lost their jobs, social lives, homes, and time. Some of which they can never get back. Kirk Bloodsworth was convicted of rape and murdered based on a false eyewitness account in 1984. He was released in 1993 when a DNA test confirmed his innocents (Exonerations). Kirk lost almost ten years of his life because of false conviction. Even though he is out now, he will never be able to remove this blemish from his record. Whenever he applies for a loan, job, or anything with a background check, this will come up. Juan Roberto Meléndez-Colón spent 18 years in on Florida’s death row for a crime committed by a man that told over 16 individual what he had done (Exonerations). Eighteen years on death row is an extraordinarily long time. He missed his kids growing up, but even worse, over 18 years, he could have been put to death. Cameron Todd Willingham is another example of an innocent man that was wrongly convicted. He was killed in 2004 for the accusation of setting a fire that killed his three kids on December 23, 1991. He was convicted by arson science that was
The 8th Amendment to the Constitution, put in by the founding fathers of the United States, states that no one will be put through cruel and unusual punishment. The current method of execution is lethal injection. In the scientific community lethal injection is considered the least painful and most humane. The problem is even no one is exactly sure how painful the experience is. “The procedure typically involves the injection of three substances: first, sodium thiopental to induce anesthesia, followed by pancuronium bromide to relax muscles, and finally potassium chloride to stop the heart”(Motluk). In theory the first injection puts you to sleep, the second relaxes you, and the third speeds your heart up so much that it eventually gives out. The problem is the doctors and nurses are not allowed to perform these tasks due to ethical guidelines; which leaves those without specific training to administer the dosing (Motluk). This leaves a large range for error when it comes to the life of the patient. “Even where the same execution protocol and the same blood sampling procedure was used, they found that levels varied dramatically - from 8.2 to 370 milligrams per liter. In other inmates, mere trace levels were recorded” (Motluk). Without the ability to know exactly what the person is feeling the use of lethal injection is considered cruel and …show more content…
Well at least that is what we are told. With 150 individual having been exonerated, but that doesn’t consider all the others that could be innocent also. Not all individuals on death row are innocent, but with over 3,000 constituents on death row it is possible that there is more. Not only are these people wrongly convicted, they also have lost their jobs, social lives, homes, and time. Some of which they can never get back. Kirk Bloodsworth was convicted of rape and murdered based on a false eyewitness account in 1984. He was released in 1993 when a DNA test confirmed his innocents (Exonerations). Kirk lost almost ten years of his life because of false conviction. Even though he is out now, he will never be able to remove this blemish from his record. Whenever he applies for a loan, job, or anything with a background check, this will come up. Juan Roberto Meléndez-Colón spent 18 years in on Florida’s death row for a crime committed by a man that told over 16 individual what he had done (Exonerations). Eighteen years on death row is an extraordinarily long time. He missed his kids growing up, but even worse, over 18 years, he could have been put to death. Cameron Todd Willingham is another example of an innocent man that was wrongly convicted. He was killed in 2004 for the accusation of setting a fire that killed his three kids on December 23, 1991. He was convicted by arson science that was