The executive branch is made up of the United States President, Vice President, and the President’s cabinet. In the New York Times, according to Matt Apuzzo, Obama administration wanted to end the federal death penalty “the administration could declare a formal moratorium on the federal death penalty because medical experts could not guarantee that the lethal drugs used did not cause terrible suffering”. But the Obama administration never pressed or pursed the cause or issue of ending the death penalty. President Obama was for and supported the death penalty until the lethal injection of a Oklahoma death-row inmate got the national attention to the problem of lethal injection. The prisoner’s death seemed inhuman and showed that the prisoner suffered during his lethal injection. President Obama was very sorrowful over the prisoner’s death and didn’t want innocent people to die or be executed but again his administration said very little to nothing about ending the death penalty. According to Apuzzo report “Would Mr. Obama, who has said the death penalty was appropriate in some cases, commute the sentences of men who raped and murdered people? There were no clear answers. In the end, the question never made it to Mr. Obama’s desk”. The executive branch seems to be concerned but their silence isn’t helping the
The executive branch is made up of the United States President, Vice President, and the President’s cabinet. In the New York Times, according to Matt Apuzzo, Obama administration wanted to end the federal death penalty “the administration could declare a formal moratorium on the federal death penalty because medical experts could not guarantee that the lethal drugs used did not cause terrible suffering”. But the Obama administration never pressed or pursed the cause or issue of ending the death penalty. President Obama was for and supported the death penalty until the lethal injection of a Oklahoma death-row inmate got the national attention to the problem of lethal injection. The prisoner’s death seemed inhuman and showed that the prisoner suffered during his lethal injection. President Obama was very sorrowful over the prisoner’s death and didn’t want innocent people to die or be executed but again his administration said very little to nothing about ending the death penalty. According to Apuzzo report “Would Mr. Obama, who has said the death penalty was appropriate in some cases, commute the sentences of men who raped and murdered people? There were no clear answers. In the end, the question never made it to Mr. Obama’s desk”. The executive branch seems to be concerned but their silence isn’t helping the