Drug injection

to death for murder. Ralph Baze and Thomas Bowling claimed that the lethal injection procedure that the state uses creates…

“Lethal injection is the practice of injecting a person with a fatal dose of drugs, typically a barbiturate, paralytic, and potassium solution for the express purpose of causing the immediate death of the subject.” (Lethal Injection Law) The main reason that this is used is for capital punishment. It first puts the individual to sleep, followed by stopping the breathing and also the heart. The Supreme Court is confused if the sedation is constitutional and is it cruel and usual punishment.…

The process begins with an intravenous needle being inserted into both of the prisoner’s arms. The second needle is a backup incase something goes wrong with the first one. The first drug inserted into the prisoner’s bloodstream is a sedative, sodium thiopental that renders the prisoner unconscious. Next, pancuronium bromide is put into the intravenous line. This relaxes the muscles so much that it causes the lungs to stop functioning. Lastly, potassium chloride is inserted in the intravenous…

The issue I want to talk about is whether or not medical professional especially doctors should be involved in the execution of prisoners. This paper does not evaluate whether or not lethal injection should happen but whether or not professionals should be involved. Before even writing this paper my current stance is that medical professionals should be involved. But my stance is not backed by any true fact but just a gut feeling. The importance of this issue falls within the practical issue…

lethal injection moral? Is lethal injection painful? Should lethal injection be legal? Lethal injection, lethal injection, lethal injection. There is so much talk about this topic, so many articles, and so many questions left unanswered but nobody's doing anything to try and answer our questions. On December seventh in 1982, Charles Brooks Jr. was sentenced to death by lethal injection, he was convicted of murdering an auto-mechanic in Texas. This was the first ever lethal injection to be…

Capital punishment has no place in American society and the steady decrease in support for it shows that many Americans believe it is inhumane. Capital punishment is a waste of our tax dollars, prone to racial discrimination, and unsuccessful as a deterrent to crime. The amount of botched and wrongful executions conducted in Florida outweigh any benefits of the death penalty. We would benefit more from completely removing our capital punishment policy in Florida and sentencing those convicted of…

In 2015, Victoria, BC saw an increase in drug overdoses throughout the city including one death occurring in Esquimalt (news source). Drug-related fatalities are preventable if the population has access to services that would minimize the risk of an overdose. Through an assessment of the community of Esquimalt, I am proposing that there is a need to build a safe injection site to prevent accidental overdoses, as well as provide social services for detoxification and rehabilitation programs. It…

From 1977 to 2009, 1,188 people have been executed due to lethal injection. A lethal injection is a concoction of three drugs: sodium thiopental to act as an anesthetic, pancuronium bromide as a paralyzer, and potassium chloride to induce cardiac arrest. Most cases involved the execution of murders. While some Americans may agree with the death penalty, I do not. The death penalty wrongly gives government officials the power to take human lives. Physicians participating in executions, attorney…

simple and common means of dealing with offenders against society. The various methods used to carry out this form of punishment have undergone many changes throughout history; they have evolved from burnings at the stake and beheadings to lethal injections used today. During the great depression era of the 1930s there were more executions than in any other decade in American history. As eras have transformed, so have the methods of execution. Hanging was the number one practice of execution…

From the state’s secret lethal injections to the amount of innocent people put on death row and the people who were executed but then later on discovered to be innocent. Not many people usually think anything about people in prison and how they are being treated because they may think that…