Rejection of Lethal Injection

Dictionary.com says the definition of lethal injection is the act or instance of injecting a drug for purposes of capital punishment or euthanasia. In other words, putting chemicals into a person to kill them. There are four other types of execution. There is death by electrocuting the subject, death by putting the subject in to a gas chamber, death by hanging the subject, and death by a firing squad shooting the subject (“Methods of Execution”). Lethal injection is not the best way to execute the subject because the requirements are not thorough, the procedures are too complicated, and the expenses of everything combined are too great.

The death penalty is not for just any crime, and there are requirements that are examined before the final decision of whether or not the crime is punishable by death, or in this case, lethal injection. The Supreme Court looks at these three things: “A consideration of the offense’s gravity and the stringency of the penalty; a consideration of how the jurisdiction punishes its other criminals; and a consideration of how other jurisdictions punish the same crime.”(“Death Penalty”). As anyone can see they just base their decision on what other court cases have done. There is no set in stone rule that they follow. That means something like ‘if a life is taken by the accused’, or maybe ‘the accused had to have killed a child, or more than two adults’. Those are just examples, but the Supreme Court needs a line crosser like some states have. Crimes Punishable by the Death says “Oklahoma – First-degree murder in conjunction with a finding of at least 1 of 8 statutorily-defined aggravating circumstances.” Oklahoma then has rules over the types of execution they can perform, the average method of the dea...

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