This case holds significant value to not only the state of Kentucky but also the other forty-nine states. Lethal injections when properly performed are quick, cost effective, and not as torturous as the electric chair or hanging a person. This process benefits the states in a few ways. These benefits are as follows: less taxes being…
Attribution error becomes more evident in the therapy session with the group. Brian says that he considers all of them to be friends. However, he wonders after Monday if things will go back to normal or they probably will not speak to each other again. Claire states to Brian, if Andrew will see him in the hall on Monday he would acknowledge his present.…
The article, “Cruel and Increasingly Unusual; Lethal Injections,” from The Economist, discusses the death sentence in the United States. The article explains that in the US, the most common method of execution is lethal injection, although the practice is becoming rare. In several cases, the contents of the syringe proved to be faulty and the article briefly describes the controversy across the U.S. concerning lethal injections. The article also uses Kelly Gissendaner, a convict who was sentenced to death by the state of Georgia, and examples of failed injections, to show that a multitude of errors can be made in the preparation of an execution. Once the mistakes are brought to the attention of people, “these logistical and moral problems…
One of the forms is electrocution, which takes about 2,000 milliamps to cause cardiac arrest. That capacity is a strong painful shock. Another type of execution is lethal injection. Lethal Injections can contain pentobarbital or midazolam hydrochloride. It could take up to 2 hours for death, even though it’s supposed to be a quick process.…
Now, Clayton Lockett is not the first to die from a botched lethal injection. Since “1985…over twenty-five botched executions have been reported, mostly based on direct observation” (Groner, Hippocratic, 2008, 896). Not only that, but lethal injections are supposed to be a humane way to die. In Lockett’s case and in others it was not. The physician could do nothing for him to try to save him so that the execution could take place another day.…
Zachary Shemtob and David Lat's essay "Executions Should Be Televised" was first published in The New York Times in 2011. Shemtob and Lat argue that not allowing executions to be made public creates a feeling of mistrust between the citizens and the government, because "people have the right to see what is being done in their name. " The following is a summary of this essay. Shemtob and Lat reason that since executions are done in the name of the American people and using their tax money, the executions should be televised. The authors note that although most executions are said to be virtually painless, certain methods, such as lethal injection, can lead to painful death, and that the public should be made aware of this "unnecessary suffering."…
Kelsey West Stephanie Dugger English 102 14 Oct 2014 Karla Faye Tucker: A Fight to Save Her Life In the United States, the death penalty is a subject that will most likely always be controversial. The eighth amendment of the U.S. Constitution states, “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted” (Bill of Rights). Executions are not new to history, but does a humane way to kill another human being exist? Is there is difference between a humane way to kill a man and a humane way to kill a woman or child?…
The article was written to inform the public that lethal injections should be televised or made for public viewing since our tax money is being used to conduct it. During an execution there is are a limited number of people present and the media gives an account of what takes place when a person is put to death. Since video-taping is mandatory on debates, rulings, interrogations, and confessions, why not at lethal injections. The decision could strengthen the support to abolish executions or add support to the family’s of the victims that need the closure that the execution brings them. There is no right or wrong way to justify the victims death to the public.…
There is no such thing as a humane method to put a person to their death. Every form of execution most likely causes offenders suffering. Some methods, such as the lethal injection, could cause less suffering than to be thinking of being gunned down by guards or to be…
All in all, we have to speak of this improved system with unrealistic optimism to satisfy both medical and federal worlds. What role should doctors play in state execution when we can not practically have an execution system without them? Our only option is to depend on medical personnel to participate in state executions to ensure inmates are not treated inhumanely. The AMA and federal protocols might not be right, but denying inmates as patients by leaving them to suffer unnecessary suffering is inhumane. The role of a doctor as a healer is also to minimize unnecessary suffering to any patients,…
There is a machine that can perform the lethal injection but a few prisons in various states don’t trust that the machine won’t malfunction. The team of employees may wear hoods or stand behind a curtain to hide their identities from the condemned (how lethal injection works). Lethal injection is a five-step process. First the team will inject sodium thiopental, which send the inmate into a deep sleep so they don’t feel any pain.…
Love’s Executioner - Love’s Executioner This section starts with a woman named Thelma who is severely depressed. She talks to Dr Yalom about how she is married and she had an affair with a previous therapist named Matthew. She explains that the affair lasted roughly a month and that it was “magical” (19). After the affair ended, she spiraled into a deeper depression than before .…
As John Morrison exclaimed,“It should be clear that the death penalty does just the opposite of promoting decency and respect for life... It can never be applied fairly.” Since the mid nineteenth century, inmates on death row have been murdered by a plethora of gruesome methods, such as venomous lethal injections, gas chambers, and electrocution. According to the Death Penalty Information Center, there have been 1,413 executions in the United States from 1976 to the present. Although the number of death penalty verdicts are decreasing, flaws in the American judicial system have caused an increase in the amount of punishing wrongfully accused suspects to the death penalty.…
In the article “Should I Help My Patients Die?”, Jessica Nutik Zitter, a critical care and palliative medicine doctor at Highland Hospital, argues that special qualifications and training should be required for doctors to perform the lethal injection in order to guarantee that each patient gets properly evaluated and the doctor does not feel the emotional distress that comes with making this decision without proper training. Zitter describes how she felt when her first patient asked her for the lethal medication, while she understood their medical prognosis and that it was their legal right to request it from her; she asked herself was it still fair for her to say no? Another problem that she brings up is that the procedure is not covered by…
“Officials in California delayed the execution of 46-year-old Michael Morales, sentenced to death for a 1981 murder. His lawyers argued that a lethal injection would constitute cruel and unusual punishment, prohibited under the US constitution” (Hooper). But, that is not true, the Supreme Court along with the people who give and handle the ways the death penalty is given have stated that, yes, sometimes the death penalty and the way it 's done will cause some pain. They also state that the death penalty is not unconstitutional just by the fact of how much pain is given along with the penalty. As stated earlier the Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty is humane and that cruel and unusual punishment is only when excessive torture is given.…