The Pros And Cons Of The Death Penalty

The death penalty is capital punishment of execution, administered to someone who committed a capital crime (usually murder). Historically, the death penalty was carried in one of three ways: Hanging, firing squad, and electrocution. The latest change of the method was in January of 1993 in which lethal injection and lethal gas was introduced. The lethal injection option was made up of 3 fatal doses of drugs: pancuronium bromite, sodium thiopental (barbiturate), and potassium chloride. The sodium thiopental acts as a fast-acting barbiturate that stops the nervous system almost instantly. It stops the neurotransmitters from sending information to the brain, causing the prisoner to become unconscious and theoretically unable to detect any pain in less than a minute. After the first main injection, the second shot pancuronium bromite.

This chemical rushes to the heart and stops it from beating. The average length of time from the first injection to death is around 8 minutes and 40 seconds. The dosages of these drugs are abnormally high, to ensure the prisoner to remain unconscious to prevent them from suffering. These shots are usually injected in the arms. 733 people are on death row in California, and 3125 people on death row in America. California has the highest population on death row in America and over two-thirds of these inmates are male and the rest are female. (3064 men/61 women), though California has not executed a prisoner since 2006. a judge proclaimed that the death penalty in unconstitutional and violates the Eighth Amendment (ban on cruel and unusual punishment). I think the death penalty it is cruel but the offenders sitting on death row were also cruel. I think dying from lethal injection is the easiest way to go because you don’t suffer. You’re unconscious and then you die. Getting killed by a firing squad or in a gas chamber seems very wrong and it shouldn’t be