Death Penalty When Joseph Rudolph Wood gasped and snorted for more than an hour and a half after his execution and was finally pronounced dead one hour and fifty-seven minutes later, his lawyers immediately filed an emergency appeal, demanding it be stopped. It was too late. He had “gasped 600 times before he was pronounced dead”, according to (The Associated Press). This is just one of the many botched executions and a main reason why the death penalty needs to be abolished. The death penalty also violates the 8th amendment and the UDHR, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, because in the eighth amendment it says, “not to inflict cruel and unusual punishment”, which has been shown numerous times in many botched executions. There are
…show more content…
illegally obtain non-FDA-approved thiopental from overseas” (Alper). This also causing prisons to switch to a United States manufactured drug called pentobarbital. The manufacture of this drug was the first company to stand up and prohibit use of their product in executions. This also causing “a dozen of other companies such as, Teva, West-Ward, Par Pharmaceuticals, Naari, Sandoz, Merck, Fresenius Kabi, Siegfried, Sun Pharma, and Tamarang to prohibit use of their drugs” (Alper). Therefore states are left with experimenting with drug combinations, increasing a higher risk for botched …show more content…
Some crimes are thought to be so heinous that they should be executed. According to “Gallup's Annual Crime Poll”, 60% use this reason for supporting the death penalty. Also more heinous crimes put more pressure on prosecutors and jurors to give the death penalty conviction. Another big reason for supporting the death penalty is it sounds like a justifiable thing to do. “An eye for an eye”. 37% of people feel if you took a life then your life should be taken (Jones). Support for the death penalty also shows great divides in support by race, political attitudes, and to a lesser extent, gender and education (Jones). Blacks are far less likely to support the death penalty. 68% of whites said they were in favor of the death penalty while a huge 55% of blacks oppose it (Jones). Racism is a big problem why whites support the death penalty so much. African Americans have been going through the death penalty since slave times, with lynchings. Many black do not support this because of history and how unfairly blacks were
illegally obtain non-FDA-approved thiopental from overseas” (Alper). This also causing prisons to switch to a United States manufactured drug called pentobarbital. The manufacture of this drug was the first company to stand up and prohibit use of their product in executions. This also causing “a dozen of other companies such as, Teva, West-Ward, Par Pharmaceuticals, Naari, Sandoz, Merck, Fresenius Kabi, Siegfried, Sun Pharma, and Tamarang to prohibit use of their drugs” (Alper). Therefore states are left with experimenting with drug combinations, increasing a higher risk for botched …show more content…
Some crimes are thought to be so heinous that they should be executed. According to “Gallup's Annual Crime Poll”, 60% use this reason for supporting the death penalty. Also more heinous crimes put more pressure on prosecutors and jurors to give the death penalty conviction. Another big reason for supporting the death penalty is it sounds like a justifiable thing to do. “An eye for an eye”. 37% of people feel if you took a life then your life should be taken (Jones). Support for the death penalty also shows great divides in support by race, political attitudes, and to a lesser extent, gender and education (Jones). Blacks are far less likely to support the death penalty. 68% of whites said they were in favor of the death penalty while a huge 55% of blacks oppose it (Jones). Racism is a big problem why whites support the death penalty so much. African Americans have been going through the death penalty since slave times, with lynchings. Many black do not support this because of history and how unfairly blacks were