Intramuscular injection

A harm reduction strategy that has been implemented in order to reduce the number of blood borne diseases in Ireland is opening needle exchange programs. The introduction of needle exchange programs was the first Irish policy that explicitly advocated harm reduction interventions that were aimed at reducing HIV behavior without necessarily reducing illicit drug use (Cox, Cassin, Lawless & Geoghegan, 2000). The needle exchange programs are helpful to injecting drug users because they provide…

300 years, there have been 5 different methods nationally used for the death penalty. First came hanging, which was followed by the electric chair and later the gas chamber. After those 3 came the firing squad and lethal injection. Of these 5 procedures, only the lethal injection and firing squad…

in state executions, involving lethal injections. The 8th amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishment, such as executing an inmate by a firing squad, hanging, or electrocution. To carry out this law, the courts require medical personnel assistance, for example in tasks like placement of intravenous lines, monitoring of consciousness, adjustment in medication timing and dosage in state executions (Gawande ). This makes execution through lethal injections…

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…

Annotated Bibliography Aronson, Jay D., and Simon A. Cole. “Science and the Death Penalty: DNA, Innocence, and The Debate over Capital Punishment in the United States.” Law & Social Inquiry 34.3 (2009): 603-633. Academic Search Complete. Web. 4 Nov. 2015. This article suggests that the possibility of executing an innocent person is the most prominent argument against the capital punishment. Aronson and Cole claim there is a degree of uncertainty in criminal justice practices, which can be…

Capital Punishment? Capital punishment is the act of legally executing someone for a crime they have committed after a fair legal trial. It is in also called the death penalty. It is carried out by the state in various methods including lethal injection, electric chair, gas chamber and hanging. In most countries where it is still carried out, it is mostly carried out the punishment for murder. In other countries, however, it extends to culprits found guilty of treason, rape, fraud and adultery.…

for the electric bolts to pulse through their body leading to a painful death. Maybe also a gas chamber, or hanging that was used in movies that take place many years ago. The main form of the death penalty used in today’s society would be lethal injection, as it is considered the most humane method. Up until that point the main method used was the electric chair. In Sherman Alexie’s poem, “Capital Punishment”, he aims at the idea of the electric chair. Alexie describes…

Abdullah Almheza April 10th 2016 NLS290 Issue Paper Taught by Mrs. Misty Capital Punishment Capital Punishment serves justice and humans equality Ever since the Big Bang and the foundation of Earth people had a Capital Punishment until the mid-19th century. People in the past were not as many as people nowadays and they are certainly different in the way they think and live. Zimring (2004) says “Until rather recently, the penalty of death was a universal feature of criminal justice. Students…

Carolina; however, gives the inmate the choice of if they want to be injected or be electrocuted. If they choose the electric chair, everyone knows they will get electrocuted, but on the other hand, if the inmate decides that they want to get a lethal injection, there is a three step drug process that they go through. The first drug that they give the inmate in South Carolina is Pentobarbital, which is a drug used to slow down the brain and the Nervous System. Then they give them Pancuronium…

on April 23, 2014 in Arizona (Economist, 2014). Convicted double-murderer Joseph Wood suffered for two hours after a botched lethal injection. Though it may seem hard to grasp why another person should feel sympathy for a convicted murderer, no universal definition of cruel and unusual punishment exists. Thus one can make the argument that botched lethal injections fall under this protection. An additional argument supporting that the death penalty is a cruel and unusual punishment rests within…