...LETHAL INJECTION: THE DEATH PENALTY BY POISON by Roan Hieu Trung Student ID: 1391576 TROY - Saigon Technology University INTERNATIONAL TRAINING PROGRAM CENTER Legal Environment of Business (LWEN 2621) Lecturer: Brian Wayne Smith J.D There are cruel and unusual punishments that are allowed to be carried out in many countries, such as public beheadings of Islams in Saudi Arabia. There are also worse punishments carried out in the U.S, such as gas chamber ("Saudi Arabia”). As technology developed, changes were made in the implementation of capital punishment; lethal injection as a form of death penalty was founded. On January 17, 1888, Lethal Injection was first proposed by Julius Mount Bleyer, a New York doctor. The death penalty of lethal injection does not amount to a cruel and unusual punishment even though it is against popular opinions; although it does have its downsides, they are common among other methods of executions. Taking into consideration it's positives, lethal injection is more humane than other options of executions. To start, some death penalties in U.S.’s history are more cruel and unusual compared to lethal injection. Hanging was one of the earliest methods of execution used in the United States. As a punishment for violation of certain crimes, hanging was considered very effective because of its simplicity and social impacts. Before the execution, the prisoner's hands and legs are secured, he or she is blindfolded, and the noose is placed around the neck...
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...Death Penalty in US Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a Genevan philosopher, once stated, “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.” The quote establishes that as a human, one is free however no one is completely free. Laws are established to set boundaries on freedom. A lethal injection however goes beyond setting limits. Jon Sorenson and Rocky LeAnn Pilgrim define Lethal Injection in “Lethal Injection: Capital Punishment in Texas During the Modern Era” as a “injection of a lethal dose of prussic acid [cyanide]” (Sorenson & Pilgrim 2). Lethal Injection precludes the possibility of freedom for a prisoner who is later acquitted for murder as said in the Fifth Amendment, “No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in...
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...Crime with Murder Introduction—two wrongs don’t make a right even though two negatives make a positive. I. What is death penalty? A. Methods of execution. B. The history of the death penalty. II. How do you got put on the death row “death penalty” A. What state uses what method? B. What states don’t use any method? III. What do the people think about the death penalty in the U.S.? A. Why are people for the death penalty? B. Why are people against the death penalty? Conclulusion-The death penalty isn’t the right way to go for punishment after a crime it just as worse as the person that committed the crime. Fighting Crime with Murder The death penalty is a common topic and one of the major’s topics today. This research paper as you can already see is about the death penalty and it will show and tell what it is, how it works also how it is wrong because, two wrongs do not make a right even though two negatives make positive. I have learned many of things about the death penalty more than what I expected to learn. I hope by you reading my research paper you will learn how the death penalty isn’t the right way to go just like abortions some people say abortions are right but not the death penalty or the other way around it does not make any sense they both are murdering someone. Yes, the person on the death penalty did something wrong to get there but like I said before two wrongs does not make a right. Make them suffer in the prisons...
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...legalized the death penalty, it is still a highly controversial and debated topic throughout America. The death penalty is such an immensely arguable topic because the states have the control over the life and death of a human. Advocates of the death penalty believe that it is a deterrent, but evidence has proven otherwise; they also do not recognize the many faults tied up in the system. The death penalty should be abolished because the prisoners are treated inhumanely not only from living on death row, but from receiving a bad batch of lethal injection drugs. Many people do not realize the immense cost required for the execution of a single inmate and the discrimination {against African Americans} that lives in the courtroom. After being sentenced to execution, prisoners are sent to death row; a section located in in a prison that deprives them of their sanity. Death row is like solitary confinement; the inmates are isolated and confined to a cell the size of a bathroom for at least 22 hours a day. The prisoners are constantly subjected to atrocious conditions to the point that they are getting their human rights taken from them. The prisoners...
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...Death Penalty 1 Death Penalty CJ526: Academic and Professional Communications in Public Safety Dr. Ron Wallace December 17, 2012 Death Penalty 2 The Death Penalty is a violation of human rights. Capital Punishment has been practiced in just about every society. It is a debate that brings about feelings that many believe capital punishment is unfairly imposed, while others believe that it is justified for human crimes. The death penalty is handed down for first-degree, premeditated murder. There are different forms of execution that are used today: Lethal Injection, gas chamber, electrocution, hanging, and the firing squad. Today, (USDOJ, 2010) Hanging is the oldest method of execution in the United States, and was replaced by electrocution as the most common method. There have been only 3 executions by hanging since 1977: Westley Dodd (WA, 1993), Charles Campbell (WA, 1994), and Billy Bailey (DE, 1998). “The first established death penalty laws date as far back as the Eighteenth Century B.C. in the Code of King Hammaurabi of Babylon, which codified the death penalty for 25 different crimes. The death penalty was also part of the Fourteenth Century B.C.'s Hittite Code; in the Seventh Century B.C.'s Draconian Code of Athens, which made death the only punishment for all crimes; and in the Fifth Century B.C.'s Roman law of the Twelve Tablets. Death sentences were carried out by such means as crucifixion, drowning, beating to death, burning alive, and impalement.” http://www...
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...over Lethal Injection On January 16, 2014 an Ohio death row inmate was put to death by lethal injection with an untested drug. After being injected with the drug, the inmate quickly began to choke and gasp for air. This process which appeared to be painful and hard to watch continued for 25 minutes until Dennis McGuire was pronounced dead (Goode). This execution has renewed an old debate on whether this form of capital punishment violates the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution by way of cruel and unusual punishment. Although many people argue that this technique is the most humane form of execution, it has now reached uncharted territories with the use of untested drugs. In this paper I will argue that lethal injections should be brought to a close because of the ineffectiveness of the new and the old drugs being used, for the fact that executioners are inexperienced, and for the reason that untested drugs are used on inmates. Since lethal injection was first introduced to the United States back in 1977, there have been a total of 1176 inmates executed using this method (Death Penalty Statistics). The most common lethal injection procedure, developed by Dr. Jay Chapman, was at best a combination of three drugs: sodium thiopental (a barbiturate that also has anesthesia), pancuronium bromide (relaxes then paralyses the muscles in the body) and potassium chloride (this drug speeds up the heart until it stops) (Clancy, O’Brien 278). Many advocates believe that lethal injection...
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...The Death Penalty in Oklahoma Many people are for the death penalty in Oklahoma, while very few are against it. I have never been a supporter of the death penalty. In my opinion, it is inhumane and against the convicted criminals Eighth Amendment right of the government forcing cruel and unusual punishment. The death penalty is meant to be a deterrent to keep people from committing criminal behavior. As you will see with the unusually high number of death row inmates in Oklahoma this is not true. Have our criminals become Guinea pigs for our Justice System to try different methods of execution? Our botched police investigations, and fight for political power have left many questions raised for the number of executed inmates in Oklahoma. We fail to realize all too often that these criminals have rights also. Criminals have a right to a fair trial and a right for the government not to force cruel and unusual punishment on them. The original death penalty law in Oklahoma called for executions to be carried out by electrocution. In 1972, the Supreme Court struck down all existing death penalty statutes. In Furman v. Georgia, the Court ruled that the death penalty as administered was cruel and unusual punishment. Oklahoma rewrote their death penalty statutes to remedy the Supreme Courts concern. The Oklahoma Legislature implemented the current death penalty law in 1977. The method to carry out the execution is by lethal injection. The last execution to be carried out by electrocution...
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...LETHAL INJECTION IN CALIFORNIA. Lethal injection involves injecting a person with drugs for the purpose of killing that person. This procedure is also known as capital punishment. It kills the person by putting the person to sleep, followed by stopping of breath then eventually the heart. Usually a barbiturate, paralytic and potassium solution is used. Lethal injection was declared unlawful in California by Jones V Chapel a federal judge in on July 16, 2014. A former NFL star had his family murdered in 1984 by gang members one night in Los Angele's. Kermit Alexander was full of rage that he prowled the streets to find the killers and exact revenge. The only reason he stopped was because the then mayor Tom Bradley made him promise that he would...
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...CONSTITUTIONALITY OF THE DEATH PENALTY The Supreme Court of the United States has the authority to decide whether state statutes conflict with the provisions of the Constitution and the Court’s prior interpretations of those provisions. This power of judicial review has given the Supreme Court the crucial responsibility to assure individual rights, as well as to maintain a “living Constitution” whose broad provisions are continually reviewed and applied to complicated new situations. Since Justices are appointed for life, when the Supreme Court rules on an issue involving the interpretation of the U.S. Constitution, that judgment is final unless altered by a constitutional amendment or the Court’s subsequent ruling (Booklet). The Court decides whether specific state statutes are applied rightly or whether a person’s Constitutional rights have been violated. The Constitutionality of the death penalty in the United States has been decided by the Justices of the Supreme Court based on cases appealed from different states. The people who founded the United States came from England and European countries where there had always been a death penalty. This does not mean there are no reasons for states to abolish the death penalty; just that it is currently legal for the states to have this punishment. The present controversy started when the Supreme Court decided in Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (1972), that imposition and carrying out of the death penalty in the cases before...
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...Capital punishment which is also known as the death penalty is the pre-meditated and planned taking of a human in response to a crime committed by that legally convicted person. Although the death penalty can be a bit brutal, it can be needed for certain situations. Capital punishment is for prisoners who committed crimes that led to murder. Even with the death penalty is only in certain states it has its pros and cons. Capital punishment in the United States has cost tax payers a lot of money. According to the LA Times, Taxpayers have spent more than $4 billion on capital punishment in California since it was reinstated in 1973. In those years only thirteen individuals who were convicted of murder was killed by the capital punishment system. Two out the thirteen were killed by the gas chamber while the others were by lethal injection. Lethal injection came along in 1993 and was given as a choice for people sentenced to death but the year after it was made as the only way. Although lethal injection is a less painful way of being executed it’s still costing tax payers every year. The good thing about the death penalty is that it’s faster than it was when they used the gas chambers and even when they hung people. Studies show that a federal court in California found that the gas chamber was very cruel and unusual punishment so that’s what led to the lethal injection system. The Way the lethal injection system works is that they fill your body with different chemicals that end...
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...The Saga of the Richard Glossip Case: Movement For Greater Transparency Or Abolition of the Death Penalty? Death row inmate Richard Glossip was lucky in that the State of Oklahoma wanted to hang him and they forgot to bring a rope to the hanging. This tragedy of errors raises the real problem isn’t the drugs used - it is the people administering them. “I still don’t know why we had potassium acetate,” according to Alex Gerszewski, an Oklahoma Department of Corrections (“D.O.C.”). We can’t discuss how we obtain the drugs.” http://time.com/4057922/oklahoma-lethal-injection-richard-glossip/ “It is mind-boggling that a state could get something this basic wrong in a high-profile execution following a Supreme Court challenge to a state’s execution protocol,” said Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, which advocates for more transparency in the execution process. “There is no excuse for a state to be so unprepared to carry out an execution.”...
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...Proposition: The Death Penalty is unjustified. Introduction The most sacred principle in the American criminal justice system is that a defendant is innocent until they are proven guilty. If this is truly the most scared principle of the criminal justice system, then why have innocent people been released after being sentenced and serving time on death row? Since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976, how many times has innocence been proven after execution has already been done? Many people believe that capital punishment is an effective way of preserving law and order by deterring people from committing crimes. However, this is not always the case. There are three main reasons why I believe the death penalty is unjustified. They...
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...Constitution in today’s debates. There are those who advocate for the death penalty and those who oppose it, arguing that it constitutes as cruel and unusual punishment. With that being said, this paper will discuss the constitutionality of the death penalty. Controversy over the death penalty in the U.S. Supreme Court can be traced back to 1879 with Wilkerson v. Utah, which stated that the Utah territorial statue of execution by firing squad was not cruel and unusual punishment under the eighth amendment of the U.S. constitution. (Wikipedia: Wilkerson v. Utah) In 1972, the United States Supreme Court struck down capital punishment, reducing all death...
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...Death Penalty 1 The Death Penalty in the United States Rebecca Bartley ENC3211-Report Writing Professor Johnson June 8, 2013 Death Penalty 2 Abstract Death penalty has had so many changes in the last 300 years many states still use the death penalty. There are many states that are abolishing it for any number of different reasons. Many now believe the death penalty is unconstitutional and also cruel and unusual punishment and it should no longer be used. Many believe life in prison is a better remedy than putting someone to death. Keywords: Death Penalty Death Penalty 3 The Death Penalty in the United States: How it has changed over years. The death penalty policies and ideas have changed from state to state over the last ten (10) years. Each state is now making the chose on whether to have or use the death penalty, or to abolish it for any number of reasons. There are a couple of reasons that the death penalty is being abolished: (1) the first would be that many states are starting to believe that it’s unconstitutional; and (2) the death penalty is being used less and less, there are more inmates who are sitting on death row for many years. “New Mexico repeated the death penalty in 2009, and replacing it with a sentence of life without the possibility of parole” (NM repeal, 2012).”With this new Mexico was the last state to implement true life without parole, and in the last five (5) years, five (5) states have repealed the...
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...The death penalty was established on January 17th, 1977. There are currently 32 states in the United States in which the death penalty is legal and 18 where it is not. The death penalty is often referred to as capital punishment as well because it can only be used as a conviction to capital offenses that are seen as extreme cases. Examples of this include espionage, treason, death resulting from aircraft hijacking, and various forms of murder; such as murder committed during drug-related drive by shootings, murder during a kidnapping, murder for hire, and genocide. Death penalty was seen as a constitutional punishment in the case Furman v. Georgia that took place in 1972. In this case a man named Troy Gregg had been found guilty of murder and armed robbery and sentenced to death. He then asked the court to go further into the case and rule the death penalty itself unconstitutional. The case then got carried to the supreme court in which they ruled that the death penalty does not violate any part of the constitution, including the 8th amendment. The eighth amendment bans cruel and unusual punishment under the constitution. In the Furman v. Georgia case it stated that the death penalty does not violate the constitution because under the eighth amendment it shapes how certain procedural aspects regarding when a jury may use the death penalty and how it must be carried out. In modern days the death penalty is carried out by lethal injection unless the inmates choose an alternative...
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