What sorts of words come to mind when you hear the words death penalty: murder, termination, and expiration? Maybe the words that come to mind are: justified, validate, or tolerable. “The Death Penalty” by David Bruck was written in 1985, as a counter argument to another essay. In his essay, Bruck discusses different points to support the death penalty. Twenty-six years later, in 2011, two men named Zachary Shemtob and David Lat wrote an essay called, “Executions Should Be Televised”. This essay discusses details of televised executions and why they could be helpful. Life is something that is very valuable to a lot of people and can be taken away very easily. The death penalty is defined by dictionary.com as, the punishment of execution,
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Either way, today we see lethal injections as the most modern and simple way to do things. There is surely a reason why we stopped having these public gatherings to watch people being executed. Just like the evolution of technology for executions, they started from hangings, firing squads, or the electric chair to now lethal injections, we need to keep the way we administer executions the same. An example would be the Shaw case, according to Bruck, “The electric chair was Shaw’s platform…while Shaw died, the TV crews recorded another “curiosity” of the death penalty the crowd gathered outside the death house to cheer on the executioner… Someone yelled “Where’s the beef” (490). People are supporting a guy dying. Where are their morals? When people are cheering on executioners, it almost seems like they are supporting the things the executioner has done that have earned them the death penalty to begin with. Televising these executions have already started to make people make unmoral decisions, imagine what would happen if the government actually televised
Either way, today we see lethal injections as the most modern and simple way to do things. There is surely a reason why we stopped having these public gatherings to watch people being executed. Just like the evolution of technology for executions, they started from hangings, firing squads, or the electric chair to now lethal injections, we need to keep the way we administer executions the same. An example would be the Shaw case, according to Bruck, “The electric chair was Shaw’s platform…while Shaw died, the TV crews recorded another “curiosity” of the death penalty the crowd gathered outside the death house to cheer on the executioner… Someone yelled “Where’s the beef” (490). People are supporting a guy dying. Where are their morals? When people are cheering on executioners, it almost seems like they are supporting the things the executioner has done that have earned them the death penalty to begin with. Televising these executions have already started to make people make unmoral decisions, imagine what would happen if the government actually televised