Daniel Kieffer-Rhea Junior RS 10/30/14 Proposal Death Penalty Nay The death penalty… some says it’s the total disregard of human life. Some others say that the crime should match the punishment. Let’s not think of that now, let’s think of the facts of the death penalty, as well as the major hic-ups in the system. On June 17, 1790the first Congress of the United States authorized federal executions. There is more than one method to the death penalty. Some ways you would see an inmate on death row is executed would be by lethal injection, electrocution, gas chambers, firing squad, and hanging. Today since the first Congress has allowed federal death penalty 343 inmates have been sentenced to death. Also the inmate chooses the way to be executed. If the inmate has not made a decision within ten days lethal injection is chosen for him. I believe that the death penalty should not be legalized in the stat and the country. For the …show more content…
This method is very simple; the inmate is strapped to a chair facing the firing squad. A doctor locates where the inmates heart is. The firing squad has 30cal single shot guns. When an order is given by the warden all of the people in the squad fire at the inmates heart. The inmate dies do to a rupture of heart when being shot. One of the oldest ways of execution is death by hanging. Hanging in a federal execution was the primary method of execution in the 1890’s. In the hanging method there are three ways to be dropped; there is the shot drop, the standard drop, and the long drop. For execution this way the inmate is weight the day before the execution and a rehearsal is done. This is to determine the length of drop necessary to ensure a quick death. If the rope is too long, the inmate could be decapitated, and if it is too short, the strangulation could take as long as 45 minutes. The interviews I conducted were a series of simple questions they were yes or no