AMERICA IS FALLING OUT OF LOVE WITH LETHAL INJECTION
According to the economist, on the date of March 19th, the state of Texas was going to be executing the well-known Ray Jasper, who was convicted of the murder of an recording studio and was sentenced to Life with death by lethal injection would ultimately end his life. On the afternoon, of his Death a multifarious group of protesters would gather outside, of the Huntsville Unit, which was well known for being the most popularly used execution chamber. The protesters would read poems written by Jasper, and even a priest was in attendance, he would be in charge of ringing a bell, for each year that he was in prison. It was reported that no one from the prison officially announce of his …show more content…
There was still an alarming number of scheduled execution scheduled for later in that year. So According to Amnesty International, says that America still executes more people than any other country, except for China, Iran, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia. This still makes me question the fact, that capital punishment is really becoming a less common and is forever a growing not popular than ever, due to cost efficiency as well as the methods being used which is bringing it to its death sort of speak. The Economist also said, that there have been several factors that have caused the down fall of death sentence and executions. One of the most unpretentious, could be to the decline of America’s homicide rate, is on a sharp down fall. On a wider decline that has be contributed to the fall in very monstrous of murders, which covers the harshest of sentences.
While, there is another contributing factor, is that juries can give criminals the sentence of Life without parole. I found that in 1972, the Supreme Court suspended the death penalty, but it was brought back within four years, but according to the article, it says that every state excluding Alaska, are giving the sentence of making murders stay in the penal system without
According to the economist, on the date of March 19th, the state of Texas was going to be executing the well-known Ray Jasper, who was convicted of the murder of an recording studio and was sentenced to Life with death by lethal injection would ultimately end his life. On the afternoon, of his Death a multifarious group of protesters would gather outside, of the Huntsville Unit, which was well known for being the most popularly used execution chamber. The protesters would read poems written by Jasper, and even a priest was in attendance, he would be in charge of ringing a bell, for each year that he was in prison. It was reported that no one from the prison officially announce of his …show more content…
There was still an alarming number of scheduled execution scheduled for later in that year. So According to Amnesty International, says that America still executes more people than any other country, except for China, Iran, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia. This still makes me question the fact, that capital punishment is really becoming a less common and is forever a growing not popular than ever, due to cost efficiency as well as the methods being used which is bringing it to its death sort of speak. The Economist also said, that there have been several factors that have caused the down fall of death sentence and executions. One of the most unpretentious, could be to the decline of America’s homicide rate, is on a sharp down fall. On a wider decline that has be contributed to the fall in very monstrous of murders, which covers the harshest of sentences.
While, there is another contributing factor, is that juries can give criminals the sentence of Life without parole. I found that in 1972, the Supreme Court suspended the death penalty, but it was brought back within four years, but according to the article, it says that every state excluding Alaska, are giving the sentence of making murders stay in the penal system without