Death Penalty is a punishment of execution, given to someone legally convicted of a capital crime. Treason and first degree murder falls under capital crime. There are five methods of execution: Lethal injection, electrocution, lethal gas, firing squad, and hanging. The lethal injection method is used when they bound the person to a gurney and inject a saline solution, sodium thiopental, pancuronium bromide, and potassium chloride. Electrocution method uses a chair and the person is strapped to it. They usually have to shave their heads and legs. A metal cap is placed on the skull, and moistened with saline over the forehead. The sponge must not get too not too dry for it would have a high resistance, or too wet because short-circuits the electric
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The firing squad method the inmate is strapped to a chair and in front of a canvas wall. A black hood is coving the inmates face, the doctor locates the heart and puts a white cloth over it. Five shooters are armed with .30 caliber rifles, one of the shooters is given black rounds. Each of the shooters fires through a slot in the canvas and fires at the inmate. Hanging is the primary method in the United States. Before the execution, the inmate is weighed before the hanging and determine the length of the rope so it can kill the criminal fast and swift. The prisoner’s hands and legs are tied together and he/she has a black hood over their head and the noose is placed around the neck. The inmate stands over a trapped door, the prisoner falls through and snaps his/her neck. These are the five ways the government puts someone to death. Death penalty is an ethics topic because it is inhumane to kill another human being, but it is also inhuman to slaughter another or many others. Both are morally right, but society says we should keep the safety and welfare of the …show more content…
The death penalty helps the families of the victim, and/or the victim too, get closure and they can move on. Retribution is the strongest argument for the capital punishment. "Common sense, lately bolstered by statistics, tells us that the death penalty will deter murder... People fear nothing more than death. Therefore, nothing will deter a criminal more than the fear of death... life in prison is less feared. Murderers clearly prefer it to execution -- otherwise, they would not try to be sentenced to life in prison instead of death... Therefore, a life sentence must be less deterrent than a death sentence. And we must execute murderers as long as it is merely possible that their execution protects citizens from future murder" (Haag 2005). Most criminals and murderers are afraid of at least one very thing and that is death. They had their chance to contribute with society but they only wanted to destroy parts of
The firing squad method the inmate is strapped to a chair and in front of a canvas wall. A black hood is coving the inmates face, the doctor locates the heart and puts a white cloth over it. Five shooters are armed with .30 caliber rifles, one of the shooters is given black rounds. Each of the shooters fires through a slot in the canvas and fires at the inmate. Hanging is the primary method in the United States. Before the execution, the inmate is weighed before the hanging and determine the length of the rope so it can kill the criminal fast and swift. The prisoner’s hands and legs are tied together and he/she has a black hood over their head and the noose is placed around the neck. The inmate stands over a trapped door, the prisoner falls through and snaps his/her neck. These are the five ways the government puts someone to death. Death penalty is an ethics topic because it is inhumane to kill another human being, but it is also inhuman to slaughter another or many others. Both are morally right, but society says we should keep the safety and welfare of the …show more content…
The death penalty helps the families of the victim, and/or the victim too, get closure and they can move on. Retribution is the strongest argument for the capital punishment. "Common sense, lately bolstered by statistics, tells us that the death penalty will deter murder... People fear nothing more than death. Therefore, nothing will deter a criminal more than the fear of death... life in prison is less feared. Murderers clearly prefer it to execution -- otherwise, they would not try to be sentenced to life in prison instead of death... Therefore, a life sentence must be less deterrent than a death sentence. And we must execute murderers as long as it is merely possible that their execution protects citizens from future murder" (Haag 2005). Most criminals and murderers are afraid of at least one very thing and that is death. They had their chance to contribute with society but they only wanted to destroy parts of