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Their first reason for the abolishment of the death penalty is that the way we execute people is inhumane. You may think that I am going to talk about the electric chair as earlier, which, I may inject, was not humane as the Supreme Court decided, but I have another method on my mind when I think of the death penalty. I am going to talk about a newer, cleaner way to kill people, lethal injection. Lethal Injection was first introduced in 1977 in both Oklahoma and Texas. The first prisoner to die of a lethal injection was Mr. Charles Brooks of Texas, in December 1982. A dubious honor, to be sure. You see, while this is a cleaner way of killing a person, it is not, at all, any more humane. Let’s take a look at how this works. Once an intravenous line is established, the injections begin. The first combination of drugs are used to induce immediate unconsciousness. The next injections, all of which are administered by machines, are meant to paralyze all of the muscles of the victim. I mean all of the muscles, the heart, diaphragm, what ever you can think of. The best aspect of the drug which starts the paralysis, is that we don’t have to see his face contort in pain as his lungs collapse, or organs explode. The main goal of the last set of drugs is to bring about cardiac arrest. Clean, yet inhumane. But even better yet, there have been instances where the first drug, to make the convict black out, has failed. In one such case the drugs binded and blocked the tubes taking it into the body, prolonging the death considerably. A witness of the killing of Mr. James Autry, reported that it took Mr. Autry ten minutes to die. Mr. Autry was conscious for much of the time and struggled, moaning in pain. Not always humane, but there is usually less of a gruesome show and easier to clean up, now there is a plus. The only good thing about this method of killing is that we don’t always have to watch them die, they just go to sleep, like a family pet. |
