The Death Penalty for or against? YOU be the judge

In this blog the opinions I state are only MY OPINIONS so i dont wish people to call me up for them.


I am personally AGAINST the death penalty in all forms. A recent discussion on facebook made me want to relook up all the facts i had read that set my opinion.

Fair enough i may sound like a hippy and as someone said i may feel different if my parents were murdered and the guy was just in jail. You may also feel different if your family members were on death row. Even more so if your family were on death row for crimes they did not commit.

And dont act like there were never people on death row who werent there by accident.

Allan Gell Faced the death penalty and was on death row for FIVE years for crimes he did not commit he was quoted to say "I cant explain what it feels like at all to wake up each morning on death row with death looming over you and you dont belong there"

In 2004 after 5 years on north carolinas death row allan gell was released from prison when it was discovered that the two whitnesses against him lied to the police. Why would they do such a thing? The whitnesses had commited the murder Mr Gell had been sentenced to DIE for. not good enough?! On the day of the murder Mr Gell was ALLREADY IN JAIL!! for a previous crime of car theft. If the system is so strong and powerfull and looks at all the facts im sure they could have looked this up. WHY DIDNT THEY? and what makes this case more fucking annoying?! When this evidence did appear it took the state 2 YEARS to retry him.
this is rediculous. must be a one off right? WRONG. According to the death penalty information center since since 1973, 121 have been released from death row because they have been found non guilty or the charges against them have been dropped.

I shall move on and talk about my main reason for hating the death penalty it is inhumane
since 1976 there have been more than 1,000 exicutions in the u.s
152 electrocution
11 by gas chamber
3 by hanging
2 by firing squad
817 by lethal injection

Hanging Was said to be humane because it would be a quicker way for thinner people to die yet it has snapped the heads off of people.

Then there is the firing squad i fail to see how being shot is humane in the slightest

then theres the gas chamber which isnt an exact science some inmates will have different chemical balances to others so when the cyanide tablets drop it may not be enough to kill them.

and what about exicutions?
There have been some really badly done exicutions this way where the inmates head catches on fire there are pictures of a shirt that was worn to the electric chair im not gonna post it because it was incredibly graphic. The inmate was burned so badly that the skin on his face MELTED OFF and went down the front of his shirt. How does this continue?
So people by this part of the rant say the lethal injection how can you say that isnt humane?
Well to start the goal of lethal injection isnt to make it easier for the person being killed its for the person killing to have an easier time. But let me explain what happens in a lethal injection before i start.
First you are strapped to a table or whatever
the exicutioner puts two needles in your arm incase one gets clogged
assuming there is no call from the govoner the exiction begins
First you get 5000 grams of sodium thiopental... it puts you to sleep for about 30seconds
then you get about 100 grams of Pancuronium bromide it parylizes your lungs and diaphram so you stop breathing.
And finally you get some Potassium chloride which induces cardiac arrest. 2 minutes later a doctor pronounces you dead.

Sounds peacefull eh? A study published in a medical journal which examined details from autopsys in 49 exicutions over different states doctors found that 43 of the 49 had lower levels of the sleeping medication sodium thiopental than required for surgery 21 of thoose had low enough concentrations that they were likely to be awake and aware what was going on. so if you dont get enough of the thiopental you would stay awake and the pancuronium bromide stops you from moving but does not effect your awareness which means those 21 may have experienced suffocation and intense pain without anisthesia and without the appearence of suffering,
the study concludes that this method of killing fails to meet the standards for putting down animals.


I dont think any human being should suffer this if a human being cannot be rehabilitated they should be put in solitary confinement for the rest of their days. Prison is a big enough punnishement for any criminal i dont believe in eye for an eye. My studies may sound biased so i invite you to go have a look into the death penalty and draw your own conclusions.


I leave you with this,


If you support the death penalty and even one innocent person is killed and killing an innocent person is murder then YOU become a murder.



thanks for reading

Ian
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