The death penalty is the legal process of executing a
convicted person as punishment for crimes.
It is also known as capital punishment, death sentence, execution, and
judicial murder. Crimes that result in a
death sentence are known as capital crimes or capital offenses. There have been
quite a few states that have already abolished the death penalty, the main
reason being that it is found to be unconstitutional under the 8th amendment.
The main method used for the death penalty is lethal injection but recently the
drugs need to carry out executions have become unavailable in the united
states, causing a lot of controversy as to whether the executions by lethal injection
should continue but with using different drugs and combinations of drugs. There
was a recent case in Arizona using a new combination of the new and untested two-drug combination of midazolam
and hydromorphone, the state of Arizona began pumping the drugs into Wood at 1:57 p.m. His death was
not pronounced until about two hours later at 3:49 p.m. According to a reporter
who witnessed the execution, Wood gasped 660 times before he died. In April,
Oklahoma carried out what some people are calling the worst lethal injection in
U.S. history. In this execution, the doctors pushed an IV straight through a
vein in Clayton Lockett’s groin, which caused the drugs to fill his tissue
rather than his bloodstream. Lockett writhed and gasped for air, and the
executioners closed the curtains and tried to call off the execution but before
they could stop it Lockett died of a heart attack. Also, there have been
studies done on the rate of innocence of prisoner convicted to death and put on
death row that shows for every 100 prisoners on death row at least 4 are
innocent (4%). This has caused much controversy on whether the death penalty is
constitutional because of wrongful convictions.
The death penalty is the legal process of executing a
convicted person as punishment for crimes.
It is also known as capital punishment, death sentence, execution, and
judicial murder. Crimes that result in a
death sentence are known as capital crimes or capital offenses. There have been
quite a few states that have already abolished the death penalty, the main
reason being that it is found to be unconstitutional under the 8th amendment.
The main method used for the death penalty is lethal injection but recently the
drugs need to carry out executions have become unavailable in the united
states, causing a lot of controversy as to whether the executions by lethal injection
should continue but with using different drugs and combinations of drugs. There
was a recent case in Arizona using a new combination of the new and untested two-drug combination of midazolam
and hydromorphone, the state of Arizona began pumping the drugs into Wood at 1:57 p.m. His death was
not pronounced until about two hours later at 3:49 p.m. According to a reporter
who witnessed the execution, Wood gasped 660 times before he died. In April,
Oklahoma carried out what some people are calling the worst lethal injection in
U.S. history. In this execution, the doctors pushed an IV straight through a
vein in Clayton Lockett’s groin, which caused the drugs to fill his tissue
rather than his bloodstream. Lockett writhed and gasped for air, and the
executioners closed the curtains and tried to call off the execution but before
they could stop it Lockett died of a heart attack. Also, there have been
studies done on the rate of innocence of prisoner convicted to death and put on
death row that shows for every 100 prisoners on death row at least 4 are
innocent (4%). This has caused much controversy on whether the death penalty is
constitutional because of wrongful convictions.