What Is The Death Penalty Inhumane
A murderer dies of natural causes and is provided with a formal funeral. He experienced peaks and valleys throughout his life, but was never arrested. In fact, he actually worked for the state prison. So how does this work out? The murderer being described is not a vicious, serial killer; he simply worked as the state’s executioner. In America, capital punishment is looked upon as a responsibility; however, in reality, it can make a killer of all of us. The death penalty is too inhumane for our level of civilization; it cannot be carried out in a respectable way, may murder innocents, and disagrees with our Constitution.
The electric chair, firing squad, lethal gas, hanging, and lethal injection are all methods still used in the United States as a death penalty, but frankly these procedures are brutal and very cruel. There is not a simple, non-suffering solution to end the life of death row criminals. The lethal injection was introduced as a simple, fast way to end a criminal’s life, but now there are complications. As Justin E. Smith, a professor of history and philosophy of science at the University of Paris Diderot, stated, “now lethal injection is threatened, with state-prison officials …show more content…
Is there really anything more cruel and unorthodox than murder? As stated in my first point, there are only cruel methods as of right now to end a prisoner’s life. Moreover, as Professors James Liebman and Peter Clarke state, “The death penalty is not the punishment for murder . . . ; the penalty instead is life without the possibility of parole, but with a small chance of execution a decade [or more] later“ (Sun 1587). Forcing people to be imprisoned for extended amounts of time not knowing if they’re life is over or not is a harsh practice in itself. It can lead to mental illness and suicide quicker than they can be
The electric chair, firing squad, lethal gas, hanging, and lethal injection are all methods still used in the United States as a death penalty, but frankly these procedures are brutal and very cruel. There is not a simple, non-suffering solution to end the life of death row criminals. The lethal injection was introduced as a simple, fast way to end a criminal’s life, but now there are complications. As Justin E. Smith, a professor of history and philosophy of science at the University of Paris Diderot, stated, “now lethal injection is threatened, with state-prison officials …show more content…
Is there really anything more cruel and unorthodox than murder? As stated in my first point, there are only cruel methods as of right now to end a prisoner’s life. Moreover, as Professors James Liebman and Peter Clarke state, “The death penalty is not the punishment for murder . . . ; the penalty instead is life without the possibility of parole, but with a small chance of execution a decade [or more] later“ (Sun 1587). Forcing people to be imprisoned for extended amounts of time not knowing if they’re life is over or not is a harsh practice in itself. It can lead to mental illness and suicide quicker than they can be