Capital punishment in Singapore

before been used in a lethal injection execution. John Paul Rion, the attorney representing McGuire’s children in their lawsuit, said at a press conference that the execution violated McGuire’s constitutional protection against cruel and unusual punishment.“I can’t think of any other way to describe it than torture,” daughter Amber McGuire said in a statement. While fighting last week to block the execution, McGuire’s lawyers argued that the new drug combination could…

Being the bishop of the Egyptian Capital, he was seized by Roman officials and unfortunately beheaded without a trial. Many other Catholic officials were imprisoned such as Phileas and Philoromus, who were the heads of a financial institution in Egypt. Shortly after converting to Christianity…

According to the DPIC (Death penalty information center), the average amount spent on a single death penalty case in Texas is about 2.3million, which is almost three times the amount spent on an inmate put in the highest maximum security for forty years. For crimes that require or call for the death penalty, I support life in prison without parole instead of the death penalty because it is too expensive; cost a lot more than an inmate spending life in prison, does not reduce or deter crime rate,…

McGautha and his co fendant Wilkinson had been charged for committing two armed robberies and a murder in California. In the California capital trial case there were two stages, the first was the guilty stage and the second was the punishment stage. Wilkinson had held down the customer and McGautha had shot. The jury found both guilty of the two armed robberies and the murder. McGautha and Wilkinson had both committed in the same robberies in a local convenience store. When they had walked…

The oversized mask revealed the young boy’s teary-eyed face as 2,400-volt surge of electricity bolted through his small body. In a few minutes it would be all over. He was only five feet, weighed ninety pounds, and fourteen years of age when he was sentenced to death by electric chair. June 16, 1944 was a record breaking day in the United states, as African-American George Stinney was the youngest person in the 21-century to be executed, and sentenced to death for the murder of two female white…

A Hanging by George Orwell is a short story focusing on a hanging taking place in a Burma Jail. The story is narrated by a jail guard as he witnesses an all too common hanging taking place against a Hindu prisoner. On the surface, Orwell is trying to show the audience the horrible mistreatment and inhumane actions of guards and prison staff again the prisoners. The slightly deeper theme of the story is appreciation, respect of human life and how Orwell feels about a man deciding the fate of…

A World with No Boundaries Prison is an absolute terrible fucking place that simply transforms first time offenders into worse criminals mixing them in with others with nothing to lose. Which is what will happen to me if I end up in those Iron Gates my life, my identity, my livelihood will come to change dramatically. I honestly cannot begin to imagine what goes on in there, in my entire life I have yet to even experience the slightest crime yet be among the people who commit to most atrocious…

Nelly watched, crouched behind a shelf containing large bags of flour in the corner of the shed, as Noyes' softened stature began to grow hardened and confused. The sheriff blocked the door but he did not draw his weapon. For a moment Nelly thought Noyes would try to run, after all he was being accused of being a convict, however he made no movement at all. His eyes darted from the sheriff to the shelf and then back to the sheriff. It dawned on Nelly that her hidden identity had been discovered,…

penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime.”- Bobby Scott. The Death penalty has been around for thousands of years and the United States only adopted it a few hundred years ago. Ever since then this has been a very controversial punishment for those who commit heinous crimes. Those for the death penalty claim that it is necessary because it helps preserve that law, deters crime, and is much less expensive than holding an individual in a prison cell. On the other hand,…

I certainly do not believe the judge in Kenneth’s appeal made the correct decision because Kenneth has been rehabilitated there is no other reason why the judge should keep him imprisoned any longer. Kenneth was sentenced at the age of fourteen to four life sentences for his part in the armed robberies taking place at four facilities within a 30 day span with an older adult. In 2010 the court ruled juvenile life sentences are illegal for offences for less than murder. During Kenneth’s appeal the…