Hidden Suffering: Problems With the United States’ Use of Lethal Injection

Imagine yourself in a vacuum tight room tied to a Gurney with a thick belt to catch you. With both arms, the executioner places an intravenous catheter on the tube connected to you, and these catheters are inserted into a wall embedded in a unidirectional window. Hidden behind the window is a serum-filled syringe that is quickly injected into the saline and passes through the body and ends in the last few minutes of life. Then a curtain in front of you was lifted and a group of about 20 people who quietly sat in your execution appeared; these people were from the family members of the trial and were selected from the media People who were.

Fatal injection is the latest implementation method and it is quickly becoming the most common way. In 1982, the United States became the first country to use fatal injections as a means of executor execution. A fatal injection was first proposed in New York in 1888. In 1977, Oklahoma became the first state to adopt a deadly infusion method. Five years later, Texas for the first time executed the death penalty through a fatal injection. Of the 38 US executioners, 34 used deadly injections as the main form of executions. Fatal injections are also used by the US Federal government and the US military. In 2000, 85 people were executed in the United States, 80 of whom died of injections. In 1999, 98 people were executed and 94 people were killed by injections. The number of states that allowed fatal injections increased from 20 in 1989 to 36 in 2001. Execution in the United States was canceled in 1972 after the case of Fullman v. Georgia.

Since the early 1980's, lethal injection has become the preferred method of practice in the United States. But does a catastrophic injection cause severe punishment for murder? The answer is "No". For those who have robbed others' lives, this is not a punishment. Fatal infusion is a process that allows criminals to give away quickly and painlessly, but what happened to the old method? Today, hanging, electric shock, shooting etc. methods are not used on a large scale. these

There are five law enforcement methods in the United States. Fatal injection, electric shock, deadly gas, pause, shooting. According to the Texas State Criminal Justice Department in Texas, we prefer to inject deadly thiopental, bismuth bromide and potassium chloride. Thiopental (also known as Doshisha) is used to rob the prisoners, pancuronium bromide paralyzes the muscles and potassium chloride blocks the heart. If a medicine is injected or not activated in vivo prior to other medicine, it may lead to unfair and painful death.