DEATH PENALTY
What is Death Penalty ?
¨-the punishment of execution, administered to someone legally convicted of a capital crime.
When was Death Penalty Introduced?
¨-Eighteenth Century B.C. - first established death penalty laws.
¨ Eleventh Century A.D. - William the Conqueror will not allow persons to be hanged except in cases of murder.
¨1608 - Captain George Kendall becomes the first recorded execution in the new colonies.
Types of Death Penalty
Lethal Injection
- is the practice of injecting a person with a fatal dose of drugs for the express purpose of causing immediate death.
Electrocution
- is the process of killing a person through high rate voltage of electricity that will then be attach to the criminals body.
Gas Chamber
-is an apparatus for killing humans or animals with gas, consisting of a sealed chamber into which a poisonous orasphyxaint gas is introduced.
Firing Squad
-is a method of capital punishment, particularly common in the military and in times of war. Execution by shooting is a fairly old practice.
Hanging
-is a method of killing a criminal with a use of a rope which is tied to their necks and leave their body hanging.
Advantages of Death Penalty
-It shows that the justice system has no sympathy for the criminals.
-When criminals escape from the capital punishment, they repeat their crimes and take more innocent lives.
-The availability of modern testing such as DNA testing reduces the chances of punishing the innocents; therefore, capital punishment can be an effective tool to control the crimes.
-The death penalty can address the problem of overpopulation in the prisons.
-It gives closure to the families of the victims who have already suffered a lot.
-It lessens the crime rate in our society.
Disadvantage of Death Penalty
-Though there are scientific methods available to investigate the crime, nothing is guaranteed. You cannot remove the chances of punishing innocents completely.
¨-Some of the accused are mentally ill, and it is ethically wrong to put mentally ill patients to the death.
¨-It is reported that some of the jury members are not completely impartial as they decide the penalty on racial or religious basis.
-In most cases people who can afford to hire the expensive lawyers often survived from such kind of capital punishment. People who are poor, and cannot afford to get a quality legal assistance becomes the victim of this penalty.
-Some of the experts believe that life prison is a more effective punishment to control crimes as compared to the death penalty. The countries where the death penalty is banned have less capital crime rate as compared to those countries where the death penalty is practiced.
¨-the punishment of execution, administered to someone legally convicted of a capital crime.
When was Death Penalty Introduced?
¨-Eighteenth Century B.C. - first established death penalty laws.
¨ Eleventh Century A.D. - William the Conqueror will not allow persons to be hanged except in cases of murder.
¨1608 - Captain George Kendall becomes the first recorded execution in the new colonies.
Types of Death Penalty
Lethal Injection
- is the practice of injecting a person with a fatal dose of drugs for the express purpose of causing immediate death.
Electrocution
- is the process of killing a person through high rate voltage of electricity that will then be attach to the criminals body.
Gas Chamber
-is an apparatus for killing humans or animals with gas, consisting of a sealed chamber into which a poisonous orasphyxaint gas is introduced.
Firing Squad
-is a method of capital punishment, particularly common in the military and in times of war. Execution by shooting is a fairly old practice.
Hanging
-is a method of killing a criminal with a use of a rope which is tied to their necks and leave their body hanging.
Advantages of Death Penalty
-It shows that the justice system has no sympathy for the criminals.
-When criminals escape from the capital punishment, they repeat their crimes and take more innocent lives.
-The availability of modern testing such as DNA testing reduces the chances of punishing the innocents; therefore, capital punishment can be an effective tool to control the crimes.
-The death penalty can address the problem of overpopulation in the prisons.
-It gives closure to the families of the victims who have already suffered a lot.
-It lessens the crime rate in our society.
Disadvantage of Death Penalty
-Though there are scientific methods available to investigate the crime, nothing is guaranteed. You cannot remove the chances of punishing innocents completely.
¨-Some of the accused are mentally ill, and it is ethically wrong to put mentally ill patients to the death.
¨-It is reported that some of the jury members are not completely impartial as they decide the penalty on racial or religious basis.
-In most cases people who can afford to hire the expensive lawyers often survived from such kind of capital punishment. People who are poor, and cannot afford to get a quality legal assistance becomes the victim of this penalty.
-Some of the experts believe that life prison is a more effective punishment to control crimes as compared to the death penalty. The countries where the death penalty is banned have less capital crime rate as compared to those countries where the death penalty is practiced.
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MERCY KILLING
History
•Review(History)
According to the historian, the origin of the contemporary debate on euthanasia started in 1870. Nevertheless, euthanasia was debated and practiced along before that date.
Types of Euthanisia
•Voluntary Euthanasia
The person killed has requested to be killed.
•Non – Voluntary Euthanasia
When the person who is killed made no request and gave no consent.
•In – Voluntary Euthanasia
When the person who is killed without his will.
Why people practice mercy killing?
•It frees up hospital beds and resources
•It ends the patient life because he/she is already terminally ill
•It relieves suffering
•Relatives spared the agony of watching their loved ones deteriorate beyond recognition
•It reduces the spread of diseases
•It removes the economic burden from relatives
Why others doesn’t agree with mercy killing?
•It is not moral to end the patient's life because he has the right to live longer
•It is murder
•Sanctity of life
•Making the decision for yourself, or others?
•Voluntary Euthanasia gives doctors too much power
Advantage and Disadvantage
Advantages are that the person stops suffering from the pain that they may have it also depends on the condition if the person is mentally disabled and very sick, that person would probably wish to die than live.
On the positive side, people who are mentally competent and know themselves well enough to believe they cannot handle the medical illness that is facing them should have the right to control their own end.
Advantages:
- the patient does not suffer any more physically
- the family of the patient does not have a problem in the family anymore
Disadvantages are that the person starts depending on other person to help them or do something. The person can get saved by , psychological support, family support, and economical support. The doctors can diagnose wrong too and then what if there is a chance of that person living but other people doesn’t realize it. Every person has a right to live as long as they want so no one should take their lives away from them.
Disadvantages:
- usually, the persons who are subject to mercy killing are persons who cannot choose their way of dying. the problem is they might recover miraculously if doctors find the perfect cure;
- morally, this is killing, since someone else "takes care" for the patient to die;
- in case of the persons who choose to be mercy killed, morally, it can be considered the person commits suicide;
- if patients can choose, men usually prefer it in comparison with women; this suggests women believe more in miracles.
•Review(History)
According to the historian, the origin of the contemporary debate on euthanasia started in 1870. Nevertheless, euthanasia was debated and practiced along before that date.
Types of Euthanisia
•Voluntary Euthanasia
The person killed has requested to be killed.
•Non – Voluntary Euthanasia
When the person who is killed made no request and gave no consent.
•In – Voluntary Euthanasia
When the person who is killed without his will.
Why people practice mercy killing?
•It frees up hospital beds and resources
•It ends the patient life because he/she is already terminally ill
•It relieves suffering
•Relatives spared the agony of watching their loved ones deteriorate beyond recognition
•It reduces the spread of diseases
•It removes the economic burden from relatives
Why others doesn’t agree with mercy killing?
•It is not moral to end the patient's life because he has the right to live longer
•It is murder
•Sanctity of life
•Making the decision for yourself, or others?
•Voluntary Euthanasia gives doctors too much power
Advantage and Disadvantage
Advantages are that the person stops suffering from the pain that they may have it also depends on the condition if the person is mentally disabled and very sick, that person would probably wish to die than live.
On the positive side, people who are mentally competent and know themselves well enough to believe they cannot handle the medical illness that is facing them should have the right to control their own end.
Advantages:
- the patient does not suffer any more physically
- the family of the patient does not have a problem in the family anymore
Disadvantages are that the person starts depending on other person to help them or do something. The person can get saved by , psychological support, family support, and economical support. The doctors can diagnose wrong too and then what if there is a chance of that person living but other people doesn’t realize it. Every person has a right to live as long as they want so no one should take their lives away from them.
Disadvantages:
- usually, the persons who are subject to mercy killing are persons who cannot choose their way of dying. the problem is they might recover miraculously if doctors find the perfect cure;
- morally, this is killing, since someone else "takes care" for the patient to die;
- in case of the persons who choose to be mercy killed, morally, it can be considered the person commits suicide;
- if patients can choose, men usually prefer it in comparison with women; this suggests women believe more in miracles.
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