What does the lethal injection consist of?
The two most commonly used injections for (capital punishments) are potassium (stops the heart), morphine (pain and stops your breathing drive in high doses) and another drug I can't think of now.
Lethal Injection and punishments for murder?
I'll probably be pretty unpopular, but here's some arguments against what you've said... sorry it's so long, but these are complicated questions... I have to say honestly that I've never heard someone who has actually been in prison refer to it as "free room and board". And yes, I've spoken to a number of people who have been in prison. Prison is a horrible place, and if you hear anything else, you're hearing it from people who dont know from experience. Fact is, we never hear actual prisoners talking about what life is like in prison, so what you hear about it isn't likely to be accurate. You seem to think punishment for crime is not harsh enough. Well, people all over the western world have been saying that for a long time. Governments have responded by making penalties harsher, and there are more people in prisons now than ever before. But here's the problem: crime rates haven't gone down. I dont expect you to believe me, but punishing people does not actually reduce crime rates. If punishment reduced crime, crime would be at an all time low right now. Crime rates now are much the same as they have been for decades. And on the death penalty, the USA executes more people than just about any other country except China, I think. But murder rates in the USA are still very very high. Compare a country like Japan, which has no death penalty and also a very low violent crime rate. All I'm trying to say is that this is very complicated. Increasing penalties does not reduce crime rates, there are many other factors involved. I wanted to say more, but I've already gone on too long... all I'll say to finish is that I encourage you to do some research on this: look at crime statistics and imprisonment statistics. Go to your library and read books on criminal punishment. If I'm wrong, message me and we'll argue some more.
What are examples of cruel and unusual punishments?
I think you meant disembowelment, though the result is the same. 1. Drawing and quartering (basically the same as disembowelment). 2. Death by electric chair was ruled in many states to be cruel and unusual punishment. 3. Keelhauling (dragging someone back and forth underneath a boat, not only drowning them but severely lacerating their skin as it comes in contact with jagged barnacles). Formerly employed as punishment in 17th and 18th-century navies, usually by the captain of the ship, who was "judge, jury, and executioner". 4. The Geneva convention describes waterboarding (an interrogation technique in which the subject is brought close to death by near-drowning, including "water in the trachea") as torture, which might be considered cruel and unusual punishment. Following WWII, the US declared that when the Japanese used it, it was cruel and unusual, but technically it's not punishment for a crime, but rather a technique used to extract confessions. And now the Bush adminstration says it's not cruel and unusual. I assume that means that while it's cruel, it's not unusual... but don't tell your teacher that or you'll get in trouble. 5. I am not sure how the courts define whether hanging or death by firing squad is cruel and unusual. Not many of them do that any more, regardless. 6. Finally, there is some debate currently about whether death by lethal injection is cruel and unusual. The basis for this argument is that of the three drugs used: sodium thiopental (to render the subject unconscious), pancuronium bromide (which stops breathing), and potassium chloride (to stop the heart), PB's paralytic effect MAY tend to mask the signs of struggle associated with pain, making it appear as though the subject is not experiencing pain (in cases where one of the other drugs was used by itself WITHOUT PB for therapeutic reasons, the subjects reported experiencing excruciating pain). Also, the ED/LD's (effective dose / lethal dose) of these drugs varies by weight of the subject and the effects appear to vary quite a bit, with some subjects' hearts beating for 8-10 minutes after the paralytic had already set in. But that one is still open to debate. Pretty much any violent form of death which involves dragging it out so that the subject takes longer to die than needed may be reasonably considered cruel and unusual. I know this doesn't help much.
Is lethal injection for executions cruel and unusual punishment?why or why not?
i'm unable to declare that I even have ever heard anybody argue that deadly injection is merciless and unusual. that's the least merciless approach in use on the instant. in reality what happens is that your putting somebody to sleep. i'm not a vet, yet I surmise that's the same technique used to place down a unwell puppy. that is humorous how many human beings have any form of sympathy for loss of existence row inmates and are in contact approximately their loss of existence and choose it to be painless. provide me a injury. those adult males are finished products of crap, who dedicated violent offenses and should die. Do you think of they cared approximately their victims as they pleaded for their lives. the place became into the sympathy for their victims. those adult males do not care, they are basically sorry they have been given caught. I wager a majority of loss of existence penalty combatants have on no account labored in a optimal protection penitentiary or ever walked a tier in any form of penitentiary. I wager in the event that they did they might have a distinctive opinion. bear in mind, one does not finally end up on loss of existence row for making a song too loud in church. greater oftentimes tan not those crap stick inmates have killed cops, corrections officers so f- them. I haven't any sympathy for them. finally, no rely what approach you arise with to execute the unfavorable little inmate some bleeding heart libral hippie is going to wine approximately it. I say hit upon a tree, get a rope.
What do you think about lethal injection being cruel and unusual punishment?
um..if they remove lethal injection as a method of execution....how are we supposed to kill them......in the past there was hanging, firing squad, gas chamber, electric chair...most of these methods have been deemed "cruel and unusual"...i caught something about executionees experience a "burning, and stinging sensation"....what do you think their victims felt.....i'm on the fence about the death penalty to begin with....i do not feel it has always been the correct punishment, and sometimes when the criminal deserves the death penalty it is not enforced.....i don't know....i still question the validity of the death penalty....now i have to figure out how to kill them...what?!?
You know the ACLU will object to any method of execution as inhumane and unconstitutional, cruel & unusual.
Cruel and unusual punishment is never acceptable. Using it is equivalent to ignoring the guidelines of the law. If it became routine to make exceptions, it would be the first step towards tyranny. People should always be treated fairly before the law.Now, the death penalty is not something to be taken lightly. As with everything concerning criminal justice, you ought to leave emotions out of the picture. I understand the desire to let violent criminals suffer. However, I also understand that doing so serves no real purpose besides satisfying my thirst for revenge, and harms justice in general. I do support the death penalty, but I don't think its purpose should be retaliation, rather, to kill the offender to remove any chance of danger from them. Personally, I am only interested in getting rid of them. Wanting to see them suffer is rather petty.The collective of other humans, represented by the justice system, deciding they are not letting you exist any longer, is a harsh enough punishment as it is and should not be underestimated.
One cannot survive a lethal injection.If a condemned person is injected with one or more chemicals, but death does not occur, then manifestly the injection was not lethal. Perhaps annoying, or irritating, or breathtaking, or painful, or agonizing. But not lethal.The Court Order and the Death Warrant specify the prisoner is to be executed, i.e., killed, by a lethal injection.So if the first attempt did not cause death, they would try again, the second time making absolutely certain that the condemned will die. They will increase the concentration of the toxic chemical to a level sufficient to kill a horse, and keep pumping it into the condemned until he expires.Little kids like to ooh and ahh about their fantasy of a failed execution, and squeal with delight over the irony that then the prisoner would have to be released.No such thing. And no, they won’t run out of lethal chemicals, thus have to postpone the execution to another day. Prison administrators are more foresighted than that. The will have plenty of material on hand, in the death house or execution chamber annex, to redo the execution with enough material to assure death for a platoon of criminals.Yes, I am aware of the story that on one occasion a prisoner did not die, and was resuscitated and kept alive for several weeks, until on a second date, he was dispatched entirely. Being aware of that experience, no Warden is ever going to allow it to happen during his tenure. Whatever is going to used to kill a prisoner, will be available in far more than an adequate quantity, at the first effort to execute him. So that the first effort will also be the last effort,
What ARTIST should be constitutionally banned as "Cruel and Unusual Punishment"?
On average, an execution by lethal injection from start to finish takes about to 45 minutes, during which the prisoner is fully conscious for 35-40 mins. This is the time it takes whilst they are strapped down, a vein is found etc (if the prisoner is a drug addict, or a person is frightened, this may take longer as drug use and fear causes veins to contract, making them harder to hit). Imagine the mental torture a person goes through during this time knowing they are being prepared for and being put to death. PLUS As a person is paralysed by the 1st injection, no-one really can tell whether they feel pain because they can't move. In theory the 1st injection (sodium thiopental - a barbiturate) is meant to send them to sleep, but as any anaethetist will tell you, it is very hard to judge the dose needed to do this, with the result that there is the strong potential for a prisoner to still be awake and consious when they are injected with potassium (nice and caustic) that induces a heart attack (very painful feeling of your chest being crushed) and pancuronium bromide which paralyses their lungs (agonizing death through suffocation). As it stands, the current lethal injection procedure can just give the appearance of serenity and a humane death than an ACTUAL humane death. Doesn't that sound a wee bit cruel to you? Whether you agree with the death penalty or not, basic morality and human decency says that if you are going to kill someone judicially, that death should be quick and painless (and the Founding Fathers agreed with this by banning "cruel and unusual" punishments).