Brulliard, Karin. "Lethal Injections Called Flawed." Washington Post. The Washington Post Company, 15 Apr. 2005. Web. 26 Sept. 2011.
Washington Post writer Karin Brulliard states that some prisoners who are receiving lethal injection treatment are not being sedated properly and are awake enough to suffer agonizingly painful deaths. She also researches that among 49 inmates, only 6 had levels of thiopental, the anesthetic, high enough to perform surgery making the other 43 susceptible to feeling significant pain throughout the entire process. Without the proper amount of anesthesia, the study says that inmates would endure suffocation and extreme pain during lethal injection. The author's intent is to persuade people that without proper sedatio, the lethal injection process can be quite painful deeming it unjust and unconstitutional. Karin Brulliard's main purpose is to get government officials to recognize lethal injection is bad and should be illegalized. This article was very informative and remained unbias during almost the entire article. Brulliard researched the studies of doctors who sought to find out whether lethal injection was cruel and unusual or not. I believe this would be a great topic for me because I strongly believe in the promotion of lethal injection and this article would help with my opposing views. I think this topic could be quite interesting for others, but yet at the same time could be totally against their morals to support lethal injection.
I think this would be a great topic for a paper. There is a lot of information and debate about lethal injections and would work very well for a research paper. The only problem for you, personally, is that most of the information I myself have found on the topic is against lethal injection.
ReplyDeleteGreat topic, Bobbie! I agree with Laura, there is plenty of information available with this specific topic and it would be a great argumentative topic. I'm not quite educated enough on lethal injections, but it is definitely something where anyone could look into it more.
ReplyDeleteThe girls make great points, this would be a good topic and there is plenty of information to make a competitive argument. The author certainly has about that according to the 8th amendment in our constitution, lethal injection without proper anesthesia would most definitely be cruel and unusual punishment. Perhaps that death penalty should be saved more for people who are serial killers or have committed multiple acts of violence.
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