L'idée de réviser la peine de mort aux États-Unis

Monday, 19 th 2014

TOPIC: DEATH PENALTY

The death penalty is a penalty provided by law, of executing a person. This award is granted by a judicial institution from the trial.

This theme is narrated by two texts. The first is entitled "Execution botched despite lethal-injection warnings," it was published on April 30, 2014 by Michael reilly (new scientist).

This text tells the missed execution of a prisoner in Oklahoma named Clayton Lockett.

Indeed, the drug cocktail used for his execution was not tested before, and after the first injection, the inmate raised his head and spoke a few minutes after injection, and he have been unconscious according to the report local news.

After the both injections, a prison official said that his luck was broken and the execution was a failure. Lockett died a few minutes later of a heart attack.

This episode prompted the Governor of Oklahoma to investigate and the execution of Charles Warner was expected just after has been canceled.

This incident and many others that occurred before led to concerns and questions about how the death sentences imposed in the United States.

The second text is "US death penalty practices raise disturbing questions" it was writing on 29 April 2014 Aviva Rutkin (New Scientist). It addresses issues that arose during the lethal injection.

Indeed, the eve of his execution, Clayton Lockett has lost its attempt to force the state to name the manufacturer that provides the drug cocktail that would be used for its implementation, especially since some time before an inmate on death row, died about half an hour after drug administration.

Following this event a study revealed that there were many mistakes of justice. it revealed also one inmate of 25 in the death row is innocent.

In addition there are many drugs problems.

Indeed, the European manufacturers who supplied the drug to prisons, now refuse to do so, thus pushing the responsibility to find other cocktails.

According to Deborah Denno of Fordham University in New York, the modified drugs used for lethal injections and sometimes these changes states are not sufficiently controlled and are random.

These two texts are completely complementary in the sense that they both converge to the idea that the death penalty in the united states must be revised because it must not go against the prohibition of the Constitution of the United States on cruel and unusual punishment.

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