Jeffrey Toobin Summary

Jeffrey Toobin is an American lawyer who is a graduate from Harvard University. Toobin is employed with The New Yorker and CNN. As a writer at The New Yorker magazine Toobin published his article “Cruel and Unusual in the December 23rd & 30th, 2013 issue. In this article Jeffrey Toobin justifies his opinion on the death penalty.
According to the author the modern executioner's job has changed, likewise, the death penalty has also changed. Jeffrey Toobin suggests killing prisoners who are on death row is necessitated but harm should not be caused. The author believes that the death penalty is uncivilized in our civilized society. Toobin also affirms the fact that the death penalty has become unpalatable and gruesome because of the great length's states have gone to come up with other ways of execution. For
Furthermore, the author gives us another example to enhance his point. Jay Chapman the medical examiner who was employed by the state of Oklahoma discovered “three drug protocol” which was composed of three lethal chemicals which results in death. The pharmaceutical company that develops one of the drugs was unable to produce it due to the fact that the country it wanted to move to wanted to move to did not support capital punishments. The author intended to include this because it shows how there is an opposition to the death penalty and it is no longer a modern thing to do. According to the author, since countries had blocked the drugs from being produced in their countries, states in the United States had to adopt to a new way of executing it’s death row inmates by using propofol; however, the author says that the European Union would threaten sanctions on the United States if it had used that drug. And because of this states have to make risky maneuvers to produce these drugs without the supervision of the Food and Drug Administration (F.D.A.), so there