Capital Punishment Should Be Legalized Affirmative Case
“I think people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.” Since I agree with the words of Nancy Davis Reagan, and with the other 56% of Americans today, I stand in firm affirmation of today’s resolution: that capital punishment should be legalized within the United States.
To clarify, capital punishment is defined, as by the Oxford Dictionary, as a punishment of execution, administered to someone legally convicted of a capital crime. More specifically, in the United States, capital punishment is reserved only for the crimes of murder, terrorism, large amounts of drug trafficking, and treason.
I offer the following contentions as proof to support my claim:
Contention I: Retribution. …show more content…
Brennan, Jr., JD, former US Supreme Court Justice, I stand in firm affirmation of today’s resolution: that capital punishment should not be legalized within the United States. To clarify, capital punishment is defined, as by the Oxford Dictionary, as a punishment of execution, administered to someone legally convicted of a capital crime. More specifically, in the United States, capital punishment is reserved only for the crimes of murder, terrorism, large amounts of drug trafficking, and treason. I offer the following contentions as proof to support my claim: Contention I: Innocent people may be put to …show more content…
This method involves insertion of two tubes intravenously: one is for backup while the other is used to deliver a harmless saline solution first, then, on command, a deadly mix of sodium thiopental - an anesthetic, pavulon or pancuronium bromide, which paralyzes the entire muscle system and stops the inmate 's breathing, and finally potassium chloride which stops the heart. Death will usually result from anesthetic overdose and/or respiratory and cardiac arrest. It is not common, but still a possible case for executions to be botched, taking a usual seven minute procedure and, in some cases, dragging it out for an additional two hours, as in the case of Christopher Newton on May 24, 2007. Untrained personnel are also used to perform the procedures as physicians are prevented from partaking in them due to their agreement to follow the Hippocratic Act. This use of inexperienced workers can possibly result in the injection of drugs into muscle instead of a vein or a needle becoming clogged, which becomes excruciatingly painful to the
“I think people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.” Since I agree with the words of Nancy Davis Reagan, and with the other 56% of Americans today, I stand in firm affirmation of today’s resolution: that capital punishment should be legalized within the United States.
To clarify, capital punishment is defined, as by the Oxford Dictionary, as a punishment of execution, administered to someone legally convicted of a capital crime. More specifically, in the United States, capital punishment is reserved only for the crimes of murder, terrorism, large amounts of drug trafficking, and treason.
I offer the following contentions as proof to support my claim:
Contention I: Retribution. …show more content…
Brennan, Jr., JD, former US Supreme Court Justice, I stand in firm affirmation of today’s resolution: that capital punishment should not be legalized within the United States. To clarify, capital punishment is defined, as by the Oxford Dictionary, as a punishment of execution, administered to someone legally convicted of a capital crime. More specifically, in the United States, capital punishment is reserved only for the crimes of murder, terrorism, large amounts of drug trafficking, and treason. I offer the following contentions as proof to support my claim: Contention I: Innocent people may be put to …show more content…
This method involves insertion of two tubes intravenously: one is for backup while the other is used to deliver a harmless saline solution first, then, on command, a deadly mix of sodium thiopental - an anesthetic, pavulon or pancuronium bromide, which paralyzes the entire muscle system and stops the inmate 's breathing, and finally potassium chloride which stops the heart. Death will usually result from anesthetic overdose and/or respiratory and cardiac arrest. It is not common, but still a possible case for executions to be botched, taking a usual seven minute procedure and, in some cases, dragging it out for an additional two hours, as in the case of Christopher Newton on May 24, 2007. Untrained personnel are also used to perform the procedures as physicians are prevented from partaking in them due to their agreement to follow the Hippocratic Act. This use of inexperienced workers can possibly result in the injection of drugs into muscle instead of a vein or a needle becoming clogged, which becomes excruciatingly painful to the