A pharmacy in Missouri that agreed to supply the state with the drugs for lethal injections have backed out of their agreement. A lawyer that is fighting against Taylor’s death penalty is now suing saying that, “the state [can] not guarantee the quality of the drugs [being] used and that the drugs could cause cruel and unusual punishment during the execution”(Clark). In a few cases of execution by lethal injection the inmate would feel an intense amount of pain. However, some people might think who cares, it’s just an inmate but it is against the law to give cruel and unusual punishment.
This article “Pharmacy agrees not to provide execution drugs” does not exactly align with the subjects in my classes right now. There is, however, one class that it could in some ways correspond with and that is First Aid. These drugs affect bodily functions by causing extreme burning sensation, suffocation, and skin discoloration.
I take the side of the lawyer fighting against the death penalty in this case. I believe that inmates should pay for what they have done. I do not believe that they should be killed in a painful way such as suffocating and having a burning sensation throughout the body for upwards of twenty minutes. In this article it says, “an Ohio inmate thrashed and gasped for air and took nearly 25 minutes to die after being given a new lethal drug cocktail that had never been used before”(Clark). This is no way for anybody to die including inmates. If the prisons painfully kill people then what makes them any better than the inmates. They should not mix lethal drugs when it comes to a human life.
I feel that the author of this article was more on the side of the cruel and unusual punishment. It doesn't clearly state that the author is against the death penalty but one can infer this due to her only going into detail on the negative side. This impacts the article because one can only see one side of the argument not both sides. One thing that shows her side on this article is how she uses words like “extremely painful” to describe what the inmates have to go through when serving their death penalty.
CaCorrections. "Lethal Injection Room." Photograph. Wikimedia Commons. MediaWiki, 3 Aug. 2010.
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Clark, Meredith. "Pharmacy agrees not to provide execution drugs.” MSNBC. NBC Universal,
18 Feb. 2014. Web. 18 Feb. 2014.
<http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/pharmacy-wont-provide-execution-drugs>
This was an interesting topic to read about, and your information provided was intriguing. I feel that this article summary could have potentially been improved by rewording some phrases, and possibly checking for more grammatical errors. The only other thing I would change is your blog layout, as the black text on a dark grey background makes the article hard to read. Great post overall.
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