Death Penalty

1. This article talks about the death penalty by lethal injection. Its talks about the legality
that had this lethal injection but thanks to the opposition of an association aren't legal and
cannot be used for punishment. Scientists said that there are knowledge of Sodium
Thiopenal substance and other possible chemical alternatives. Several anesthesiologists
are in for and against this lethal injection. This topic is so dangerous and delicate it has
had to take to the Supreme Court and testify for or against the cruelty of this lethal
injection. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the death penalty that is not cruel, per se and is
not conflict with the 8th amendment of the U.S. constitution. If the death penalty is not
cruel it requires no further refinement. On the other hand, the death penalty is in fact
cruel; physicians have no mandate outside of the doctor patient relationship to reduce
cruelty. Conversely, if the death penalty is cruel it has to be some solution for this
cruelty.
Zivot, J. B. (2012). The absence of cruelty is not the presence of humanness: Physicians and the
death penalty in the united states. Philosophy, Ethics and Humanities in Medicine : PEHM, 7, 13.
doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1747-5341-7-13

2. The abolition of the death penalty in the United State today it seems possible in
comparison with a decade ago. Now, supporters of capital punishment, seems in their
defensive. For example: In April 2005, Mitt Romney, then Massachusetts Governor, wrote a bill
called A model for the nation and the gold standard for capital punishment legislation. This
bill reinstated the death penalty in his state. It was the approval of the death penalty being legal.
Thus, it limited death eligibility to a narrow set of crimes, including deadly acts of terrorism,
killing sprees, murders involving torture, and the killing of law enforcement authorities. It
excluded entire categories of crimes that many believe also warrant the death penalty, including
the murders of children and the rape-murders of women. It also laid out a set of hurdles for
meting out capital punishment sentences, in an effort to neutralize the kind of problems that have
led to dozens of death row exonerations across the nation in recent years. It have to be a measure
called for verifiable scientific evidence, such as DNA, to be required before a defendant can be
sentenced to death for juries to sentence defendants to death. Mitt Romney's bill was defeated in
the Massachusetts legislature, provides one vivid sign that the tide has turned in the national
conversation about capital punishment.
Sarat, A., Frank R, Suzanna L, Amber E Baumgartner, & , D. B. (2009). The decline of the death
penalty and the discovery of innocence. Perspectives on Politics, 7(4), 928-930.
doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1537592709991915